Activities: "How to use も (mo) with nouns in Japanese?"

John was working on his Japanese homework on his computer. While he stepped away to get his green tea, his cat jumped on his keyboard and messed up his compositions (or so claims John). Can you help him fix it? Find errors and correct them.

Not all the sentences have errors!

• John's comupter:

  明日は学校を休みます。たぶんあさっては休みます。🐾

  Ashita wa gakkō o yasumimasu. Tabun asatte wa yasumimasu.

  As for tomorrow, I’ll be absent from school. I'll probably be absent the day after tomorrow too.

  Now correct it!

  明日は学校を休みます。たぶんあさっては休みます。

  Submit

  The basic function of も is to indicate similarities as in “too” or “also” in English. も, however, appears always after the element it sets off.

• John's comupter:

  ぼくのねこはかつおぶしが大好きです。チーズがも好きです。🐾

  Boku no neko wa katsuobushi ga daisuki desu. Chiizu ga mo suki desu.

  My cat loves bonito flakes. She likes cheese too.

  Now correct it!

  ぼくのねこはかつおぶしが大好きです。チーズがも好きです。

  Submit

  When we use も to set off a noun phrase that ends with the particle は, が, or を, we replace these particles with も.

• John's comupter:

  土曜日はテニスもにボウリングもに行きたいです。🐾

  Doyōbi wa tenisu mo ni bōringu mo ni ikitai desu.

  I want to go both for tennis and for bowling on Saturday.

  Now correct it!

  土曜日はテニスもにボウリングもに行きたいです。

  Submit

  When we set off a noun phrase that ends with に, へ, で, と, and から, we add も right after the existing particle, forming the structure called double particles.

• John's comupter:

  ぼくの学校はいい学校です。先生たちも親切です。🐾

  Boku no gakkō wa ii gakkō desu. Sensei-tachi mo shinsetsu desu.

  My school is a good school. My teachers are kind too.

  Now correct it!

  ぼくの学校はいい学校です。先生たちも親切です。

  Submit

  Sometimes, the similarities suggested by も may be not so obvious or only implied.

Let’s have a fun challenge! Can you decipher the following Japanese tongue twister?
(Saying it fast for 10 times in a row might help … maybe!)

Saying it fast for 10 times in a row might help … maybe! Once you decide, go ahead and check the answer below.