Byakko
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- 29 May 2008
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I downloaded a free program on the web to give it a trial... it's actually working pretty well, and I'll most likely end up upgrading to the paid version.
During the quizzes it asks me to write the words for colours in Romanji, the program then converts to hiragana and from there to Kanji if required (it seems to be required on most words I'm learning now).. and all of them have -iro on the end of them (except Black which I can't remember the word for at the present... Darn, back to studying after asking my question).
Now here's my question.
I know that Shiro means white, but when I'm spelling it on the program it won't accept it as correct unless I add the -iro ending to it. Why would it be doing this? What does the -iro particle mean? When I was learning in class we were taught the colours without the iro behind them (in particular, midori was the easiest to learn), so why is the program insisting that I spell it midoriiro to get the proper kanji spelling?
Any help would be appreiciated! Thanks.
Oh in case anyone asks, the program is one that was featured on the Tofugu website, known as BYKI or Before You Know It... If anyone's used it before, please let me know what you think about it.
(And now, I'm going to go read the convienantly placed post on how to type in Japanese next time so that I can be more clear in my questions. )
During the quizzes it asks me to write the words for colours in Romanji, the program then converts to hiragana and from there to Kanji if required (it seems to be required on most words I'm learning now).. and all of them have -iro on the end of them (except Black which I can't remember the word for at the present... Darn, back to studying after asking my question).
Now here's my question.
I know that Shiro means white, but when I'm spelling it on the program it won't accept it as correct unless I add the -iro ending to it. Why would it be doing this? What does the -iro particle mean? When I was learning in class we were taught the colours without the iro behind them (in particular, midori was the easiest to learn), so why is the program insisting that I spell it midoriiro to get the proper kanji spelling?
Any help would be appreiciated! Thanks.
Oh in case anyone asks, the program is one that was featured on the Tofugu website, known as BYKI or Before You Know It... If anyone's used it before, please let me know what you think about it.
(And now, I'm going to go read the convienantly placed post on how to type in Japanese next time so that I can be more clear in my questions. )