gomennasai means "I'm sorry" in English. You can also say just "gomen" frankly. But if you put "nasai" after "gomen", the phrase becomes more polite.

If you put the cursor on the picture, you see the almost same meaning word in English. You can listen to the sound by click. And you can see the roman counterpart by pushing down the right click button.

arigatou almost means "thank you" in English. If you want to say "Thank you very much.", you can say "doumo arigatou". In this case, "doumo" means "very much" in English. And usually Japanse people put the word "doumo" before "arigatou".

If you put the cursor on the picture, you see the almost same meaning word in English. You can listen to the sound by click. And you can see the roman counterpart by pushing down the right click button.

Oyasuminasai almost means "good night" in English. You can also say just "oyasumi", and the latter half "nasai" makes this expression more polite.


If you put the cursor on the picture, you see the almost same meaning word in English. You can listen to the sound by click. And you can see the roman counterpart by pushing down the right click button.