Try out your knowledge of Japanese with this multiple choice quiz. There are 6 questions on idioms that refer to parts of the body such as:
耳 – mimi – ear , 顔 – kao – face, 足 – ashi -legs and so on.
Try the quiz below and see how you do.
At the end, there will be an explanation with example sentence examples.
Since I’m done studying for the JLPT (or more appropriately done failing the JLPT) I thought I’d post another grammar point. This is one you hear all the time in a variety of situations when someone has forgotten something and is trying to remember or get the person they’re talking to to remember.
Noun/Verb/Adjective (Plain Form/Polite Past Form) +っけ
何だっけ。 What is it again…
新宿だったっけ。 Was it Shinjuku? I can’t remember.
病気でしたっけ。 He was sick, right? I forgot.
買ったっけ・買いましたっけ。 Did he buy it? I forgot.
行くんだっけ。 He’s going, right? I forgot.
行ったんだっけ。 He went, didn’t he? I forgot.
行くんだったっけ・行くんでしたっけ。 He was going, wasn’t he?
冷たかったっけ。 It was cold, right?
注意：イ Adjectives don’t ever use the Past Polite form (～かったです) with っけ since it can’t attach to です. Also, it’s not recommended to use the Present Tense for Verbs or イ Adjectives. It’s generally unnatural (even in English) to forget something that didn’t happen yet.
This form is only used to express something you did know, but forgot. If you remember た・だ + っけ, you’ll be ok.
Grammar Note: Plain Form
Verb: 行く ・ 行かない ・ 行った ・ 行かなかった
イ Adjective: さむい ・ さむくない ・ さむかった ・ さむくなかった
ナ Adjective: 元気だ ・ 元気じゃない ・ 元気たった ・ 元気じゃなかった
Noun: 雨だ ・ 雨じゃない ・ 雨だった ・ 雨じゃなかった
