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Kaho’s Japanese Corner: Oishii! Oishikatta!
Many of you go off base to eat out. You have many opportunities to use Japanese you have learned! Many of you probably know this already, but here is the words for “delicious” in Japanese: Oishii and Oishikatta.
What’s the difference?
Oishii is a present tense and oishikatta is a past tense.
You say oishii as you eat. If you want to tell the waiter, waitress, cook or sushi chef that the food tastes great, you can say “oishii” while you have food on your plate. If you finish your meal, you can say oishikatta. You can also say this to the cashier when you pay.
Oishii pronounces “oh-ee-she”.
Oishikatta prounces “oh-ee-she-cut’ah”
I don’t know if this makes sense. You’re welcome to pitch in and write how you would spell the pronunciation. 🙂
Gochiso sama. Do you remember this one? It means “thank you for the meal”.
Here is how you can say as you walk out a restaurant.
“Oishikatta! Gochiso sama. Domo arigato!”
If you want to say you’ll come back again, you can say “Mata kimasu!”
Mata means ‘again’ and kimasu means ‘I will come’.
Want to read more of these helpful Japanese language posts? Check them all out HERE.
Hai = high
Yeah um hi. I NEED to know how to pronoune “hai” in japanese. I want to say it right. No questions asked. Thanks
The pronunciation might be better described as:
Oy – Shee
the ‘oi’ is pronounced as more compactly than the ‘shii’, which is stretched out just a bit. the second i at the end of the word is there for a reason.
Another thing that might be useful:
girls say oishii.
men say “umai”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhOUqueFNI
Wow. This is exactly what I was looking for. I knew Domo Arigato (Thanks Styx) but I wanted to be able to say Delicious in Japanese. Your info here is perfect! Thanks so much for taking the time to write this.
I used oishi-katta at Awase Soba, one of our favorite restaurants, the other day! The ladies (who I am sure know me and the kids by now) seemed to appreciate my effort. At the very least they understood me, and thanked me in Japanese. My kids are enjoying using some of your phrases too. Thanks so much for posting!
and thanks, too, AmgirlinJapan for the idea about the white board – I think I’ll add a white board for Japanese phrases to our homeschool room.
Thanks for the encouraging comments!! I appreciate that you read my posts!
I just love your posts! Whenever you put a new phrase or word out there, I write them down on our dry erase board in the kitchen so the whole family to try it out.
Thanks so much, I mean, Domo arigato!
I LOVE that you put the pronunciation with the post; so helpful! If I am going to learn Japanese, I want to say it right. Thanks!