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[kittydesade]

Expressing an approximate point in time with ごろ
わたしは　はちじ　ごろ　おきます。　
I get up around seven o’clock.

Expressing approximate duration with　ぐらい
まいにち　しちじかん　ぐらい　ねます。
I sleep about seven hours every day.

* ごろ indicates an approximate point in time. The particle に may be used optionally, as in　ろくじごろに　きます。

* Use ～じかん to talk about duration or how long (how many hours) it takes someone to do something. ～ふん Is used for duration (how many minutes) as well as for a point in time. Durations such as 1 hour and 15 minutes and 3 hours and 40 minutes can be expressed as いちじかんじゅうごふん and さんじかんよんじゅっぷん . いちじじゅうごふん and さんじよんじゅっぷん mean 1:15 and 3:40 respectively.

*ぐらい indicates approximate duration, amount, or frequency. Some people say くらい instead of ぐらい; there is no difference in meaning. When you want to express an approximate amount of time, such as about eight hours, make sure to use the counter じかん , not じ , as in はちじかんぐらい .


Complete the following sentences using ごろ or ぐらい .
１．しちじ　おきます。　七時ごろにおきます。
２．にじかん　べんきょうします。　二時間ぐらい勉強します。
３．ごじよんじゅうごふん　うちに　かえります。　五時四十五分ごろに家に帰ります。
４．いちじかん　テレビをみます。　一時間ぐらいテレビを見ます。
５．はちじかん　ねます。　八時間ぐらい寝ます。
６．ろくじはん　ばんごはんを　たべます。　六時半ごろに晩御飯を食べます。
７．くじ　がっこうに　きます。　九時ごろに学校に来ます。

１．何時に大学に行きますか。九時半ごろに大学に行きます。
２．何時に家に帰りますか。六時ごろに家に帰ります。
３．何時間授業がありますか。三時間ぐらい授業があります。
４．何分シャワーをあびますか。　十五分ぐらいシャワーを浴びます。
５．何時にこの教室に来ますか。十二時ごろにこの教室に来ます。
６．家で何時間勉強しますか。家で二時間ぐらい勉強します。


Heh. That lesson I did pretty much remember.

Still having some trouble separating where the particles go. Well, the one for direct object and the one for subject, especially when the subject is a bit wonky. I guess the solution may be to get a bunch of sentences together and see if that correlates with the usage in the book. At some point. Maybe Friday, while I review Kanji. ... actually, that's an eminently reasonable solution, Jag, duh.

Mail order sale is... surprisingly more quiet than I thought it would be. Still. So I'm not sure what's going on today. I'm going to finish posting this and then do the shipping pretty much all at once so that that's out of the way if we get deluged again, but the phones have been quiet and we haven't been getting many orders down from the shopping cart through the Lurking Bandit, so. I have no idea what's up. It's all very anti-climactic. Again.

Did remember to trim my bangs, at least! There's another story going up at some point today in the same universe as that horribly depressing last story I posted, this one a sort of... opposite, almost? To the one I posted. It'd probably be happier if I hadn't thought of, written, and posted the horribly depressing one first. I have no idea why these damn characters are so loud in my head now. I just hope they stay that way all through the whole process of writing the damn thing. I have four very large things to write in the next five or six months, and I do not want everyone to shut up on me at once.

Then again, knowing my brain, they'll all talk at once and I'll go crazy that way. Go me.