Japanese Word Thread

[Josiah]

dai: big, much, a lot

[Josiah]

suki: like, love (can be used in anything from "I like books." to "I love my girlfriend.")

[Cheezdude]

Suki chiizu?

[Josiah]

Bad grammar there. Should be "chiizu ga suki desu ka."

ryouri: cousine

[Josiah]

ryouriosuru: verb for to cook

[Josiah]

suru: verb for to do, often combined with various nouns to turn them into verbs

[Josiah]

bento / obento: Japanese boxed lunch (the o is an optional honorific)

[Josiah]

soba: Japanese buckwheat noodles

[Josiah]

udon: thick Japanese wheat noodles

[Josiah]

ramen: Chinese wheat noodles

[Cheezdude]

I knew that one. Ramen is tasty. ^^

[Josiah]

miso: Japanese soy based paste, used to make soup

[Josiah]

ume: Japanese plums (extremely sour)

[Josiah]

mikan: tangerines (often translated as manderine orange, but they're tangerines)

[Josiah]

ichigo: strawberry

meron: musk melon (a Japanese melon, tastes kinda like a honeydew)

hanbaagaa suteki: a hamburger prepared like a steak (a popular "American" food in Japan, even though no one in America does that)