The vocabulary course of the day covers restaurants, pastry shops, bakeries, food shops and other places related to food.
In this course, I will introduce you to a list of thirty one vocabulary words on all the places where you can buy and consume food. Thirty one words is a lot, but you already know some of the vocabulary in this list so if you’ve been serious so far I think there won’t be a problem.
Take a good look at how all these words are constructed and maybe you’ll notice something. Understanding how words are constructed in a language helps with memorization.
Here it is, now let’s start :
食料品店 .
ショクリョウヒンテン
. the grocery store
ケーキ屋 .
ケーキや
. the pastry shop
ペストリー屋 .
ペストリーや
. the pastry shop
ペストリーショップ
. the pastry shop
パン屋 .
パンや
. the bakery
クレープ屋 .
クレープや
. the creperie, the pancake house
レストラン
. the restaurant
料理店 .
リョウリテン
. the restaurant
料理屋 .
リョウリや
. the restaurant
食事処 .
ショクジどころ
. the restaurant
オーガニックレストラン
. the organic restaurant
コンビニ
. the convenience store (abbrev.)
スーパーマーケット
. the supermarket
オーガニックショップ
. the organic shop
オーガニックストア
. the organic store
ピッツェリア
. the pizzeria (from Italian)
フードショップ
. the food shop
フードストア
. the food store
フード屋 .
フードや
. the food shop, the food store
フード店 .
フードテン
. the food shop, the food store
フィッシュショップ
. the fish shop
魚屋 .
さかなや
. the fish shop
魚店 .
ウオダナ
. the fish shop
肉屋 .
ニクや
. the butchery
牛肉屋 .
ギュウニクや
. the butchery
ラーメン屋 .
ラーメンや
. the ramen restaurant
ラーメンレストラン
. the ramen restaurant
ティーショップ
. the tea shop
ティーストア
. the tea store
ティー屋 .
ティーや
. the tea shop, the tea store
ファストフード
. the fast-food
Good ! With this course and all the others we’ve seen previously, we’ve covered a good chunk of the places we can find in the heart of a city.
There are a lot of place names that we haven’t seen yet. I haven’t touched on the vocabulary of all types of cafes, bars or hostels but it will all come bit by bit. For now, it’s time to move on to a few remarks on most of the words we have just seen.
In the word 料理店 . リョウリテン. the restaurant, we have the kanji 店 . みせ which means "the store" or "the shop". It is a very common kanji in the Japanese language and that we find in many words that we will see much later. I put this kanji below with its purely Japanese and Sino-Japanese pronunciation :
店 . みせ, たな . テン
We find the kanji 店 in most place names, especially when it comes to trade, place of sale of goods. We will see other examples in more detail later.
Finally, for the small remark, I told you at the beginning of the course to observe well how all these words are constructed. Meditate on that, we’ll come back to a good number of them practically at the end of this season. I will give you a course where we will analyse dozens of words seen throughout the season and I will give you some mnemonic tips to better remember them.
This vocabulary course is now over. Thank you for reading it to the end. As usual, keep working well, practice writing and speaking and you will keep making progress.
Have a good day everyone and do your homework properly.
Introduction