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Lesson 7: Here, There, Where
In this lesson, I will teach you how to say “Here, There, Where” in Japanese.
How to say “Here, There, Where” in Japanese?
| Word | Explanation |
| ここ | ここ means 【here】 → place close to the speaker but far from the listener |
| そこ | そこ means 【there】 → place close to the listener but far from the speaker |
| あそこ | あそこ means 【there】 → place both far from the speaker and the listener |
| どこ | どこ means 【where】 → place that you are uncertain |
Examples:
| ここは私の大学です。 Here is my university. そこは公園です。 It’s a park there. あそこは危ないです。 It’s dangerous there. どこに行きたいですか。 Where do you want to go? |
Note:
| こちら/そちら/あちら/どちら is more polite than ここ/そこ/あそこ/どこ. If you are talking to your superior, you can use こちら/そちら/あちら/どちら. |
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so….
the formal version of ここ、and これ is same?
if that so, how can we differentiat them?
from the context?
Yes, from context and full sentence, you should be able to tell which one is intended by the speaker.
ah, and yes, is there some kind of informal version here too?
I mean we used to replace こちらwith こっち when we mean これ but in a formal way. can we do the same here?or is there some other shortcuts/informal way to say it in this situation?
Yes こっち can be used for both これ and ここ, and it can also be used to refer to oneself or person close to speaker.
ここは私の先生ですか？< Is my teacher here?
あそこが危ないではありません< It's not dangerous there.
Oops I made a mistake in the first one.
私の先生はここにいますか？< Correction.
correct!
I decided to make a sentence on my own and used Google and turned out to be true! Yayyyy, the sentence is : あなたの車はここにあります
i want to ask what is different between 行く and 行き ？
行き is noun form of 行く
do both どこ and ども mean ‘where’ ?
nope, only どこ means “where”. There is no word “ども”
How come in “どこに行いきたいですか” you used “に” instead of “は” but not in the other examples?
The Particle に is used to indicate [place of arrival], you will learn more about it in Particle Course. No worries!