Showing posts with label 諺コーナー. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 諺コーナー. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

諺コーナー: 朝飯前

Welcome to 諺コーナー (proverb corner)

Hopefully we should be able to get some insight into Japanese culture, and also into casual Japanese by looking at some of their proverbs and sayings

今日の諺は朝飯前」です

The three kanji comprising this phrase are as follows:

朝 (あさ) morning
飯 (めし) meal
前 (まえ) before

Putting this together we get "morning meal before" as a literal translation, however taking a looser translation we get simply "before breakfast"

This phrase means "piece of cake" and can be used to describe something that is so easy, it can be taken care of "before breakfast"

Both useful, and 朝飯前 to remember

じゃあ、またね

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