Meals and food
Core words, Stage 2chunk 47 of 80Food and drink
Lets you talk about meals and ask about food and drink.
- gohanmeal; cooked rice
- shokujimeal; eating
- meshimeal; food
- tabemonofood
- nomimonodrink; something to drink
Mix-ups Gohan, shokuji and meshi all mean meal; gohan is the default, shokuji more formal, meshi rough.
gohan
meal; cooked rice
The everyday word for any meal: asagohan, hirugohan and bangohan are breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Also plain cooked rice: gohan o taku means cook the rice.
issho ni gohan tabe ni ikou yo
Let's go get something to eat together.
一緒にご飯食べに行こうよ
issho ni gohan tabe ni ikimasen ka?
Would you like to go and eat together?
一緒にご飯食べに行きませんか?
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shokuji
meal; eating
A step more formal than gohan; common in invitations, at restaurants and in health talk.
Shokuji suru means to have a meal. Oshokuji is the polite form for someone else's meal.
kondo shokuji demo dou?
How about dinner sometime?
今度食事でもどう?
kondo oshokuji demo ikaga desu ka?
Would you like to have dinner sometime?
今度お食事でもいかがですか?
Written 食事 · しょくじRank #860 in 3,030 TV dramas
meshi
meal; food
Rough word for gohan, used mostly by men among friends.
Also heard in hirumeshi (lunch) and yorumeshi (dinner). Say gohan yourself unless you're among close friends.
hara hetta, meshi ikou ze
I'm starving, let's go eat.
腹減った、飯行こうぜ
Written 飯 · めしRank #1398 in 3,030 TV dramas
tabemono
food
Used for kinds of food, as in favourite foods or foods you can't eat.
Pairs with nomimono (drink).
suki na tabemono wa nani?
What's your favourite food?
好きな食べ物は何?
suki na tabemono wa nan desu ka?
What's your favourite food?
好きな食べ物は何ですか?
Written 食べ物 · たべものRank #2103 in 3,030 TV dramas
nomimono
drink; something to drink
Staff say onomimono: 'onomimono wa?' asks for your drink order.
nomimono wa nani ni suru?
What do you want to drink?
飲み物は何にする?
nomimono wa nani ni shimasu ka?
What would you like to drink?
飲み物は何にしますか?
Written 飲み物 · のみものRank #2678 in 3,030 TV dramas