Hiragana Page 05 お o

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HOW TO WRITE IT
[Follow the red strokes from left to right]

ROMAJI - o
SOUND - [as in OH nO!]

MEMORY: It looks like ' - a' but "OH! it's different

EXAMPLES: How do you say them?

- This means " the color blue"

- This means "hey!" - kind of rude..
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- This means "king"

All other Hiragana letters are consonants + a vowel (except n)

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The Colour Blue?

Submitted by celticflower on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 16:26.

Hello, in my text book it says that blue is aoi あおい and my dictionary shows 青い [adjective], which is the same thing, yes? So just to get it straight in my head あお is literally the phrase 'the colour blue'? Or do you just mean blue? I think my head may explode! Oh, is this just the colour on its own? Not used to describe something else? I'm bad at grammar, I feel like such an idiot *lol* Thanks! :)

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青（あお）is a noun.

Submitted by Valatunda on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 16:44.

青（あお）is a noun.

Thank you for the reply

Submitted by celticflower on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 17:36.

Thank you for the reply Valatunda. you helped me with the poetry book question too, I'm lucky you're online today!
So it's all in how you're using it? If you were listing the colours, Blue would be a noun [?] so you'd use 青 by itself?

If you were using blue as an adjective, to describe something like a blue flag, [pinched this example from my JWPce software dictionary], you’d add in い and use 青い旗 the 青い for blue and 旗 for flag?

Am I even close? :-)

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