Quoting: “she said…”
Passing on what someone said is half of family life: who's running late, what the school said, what the neighbour told you. In speech, と becomes って, and often the sentence just ends there. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 ways to pass it on
Each card shows a word, how it's used with って and a sentence for passing on news at home. Eight reuse words from earlier courses.
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What goes before って
Put the plain form before って: what the person actually said, in casual form. Nouns and な-adjectives add だ.
| Plain form | With って | Meaning |
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- って replaces と. becomes , or just ～って.
- Ending in って. means "She says she's not coming." The is understood.
- Two kinds of って. = they say it's closed. without だ can also mean "as for the day off…". The rest of the sentence tells you which.
- The polite version. To a teacher or a doctor, use : .
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Four patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.