Nihongo Journey

Time for more Japanese spaced repetition sentences. Huzzah! …..hurray?…..guys?

野菜をたくさん食べることが大切です
やさい　を　たくさん　たべる　こと　が　たいせつ　です。　＝　”Eating a lot of vegetables is important.”

絵空事ばかりだ
えそらごと　ばかり　だ　＝　”It’s just a pipe-dream.” I like this one because it’s a good demonstration of how cool the kanji can be. The kanji 絵 means “picture.” 空　means “sky.” 事　means “thing.” So put it together and it would literally be “The picture-in-the-sky-thing.” Kind of like how we say “pie in the sky.”

体重が１０キロ減った
たいじゅう　が　じゅう　キロ　へった　＝　”(My) body weight decreased by 10 kilos.” or simply “I lost 10 kilos.”

何故そこまで姉に拘るのか？
なぜ　そこまで　あね　に　こだわる　の　か　＝　”Why are you obsessed over my older sister to that extent?”

私はへこたれない
わたし　は　へこたれない　＝　”I won’t lose heart.”