{"id":106,"date":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T00:00:00","slug":"hakata-ben-kouza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/hakata-ben-kouza\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakata-ben kouza: &#8220;-ttai&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<\/div>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20061004-hakataben.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"40\" alt=\"Hakata-ben kouza\" title=\"Hakata-ben kouza\"><\/p>\n<p> What makes Fukuoka&#8217;s local dialect, Hakata-ben, different from standard Japanese? The single part of speech that symbolizes Hakata-ben for most people is the word &#8220;ttai&#8221; (or sometimes just &#8220;tai&#8221;). This is a suffix that is added to the end of sentences, and generally is used almost the same as &#8220;yo&#8221;, to tell the listener that this is new information. An example:<br \/>English: The Hawks (Fukuoka&#8217;s local baseball team) won again today.<br \/>Standard Japanese: Kyou, Hookusu ga mata katta yo.<br \/>(Direct translation: Today, Hawks [subject] again won [new info marker].<br \/>Hakata-ben: Kyou, Hookusu ga mata kattattai.<\/p>\n<p>There are of course small differences between &#8220;ttai&#8221; and &#8220;yo&#8221;. &#8220;ttai&#8221; sounds as if the story will continue afterwards, more so than &#8220;yo&#8221;, so if you stop talking after saying &#8220;ttai&#8221;, there&#8217;s a good chance the other person will say &#8220;sore de?&#8221; (&#8220;and&#8230;?&#8221;), expecting you to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Just by adding this to the end of your sentences, you&#8217;re halfway to sounding like a born-and-bred Fukuoka native!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| What makes Fukuoka&#8217;s local dialect, Hakata-ben, different from standard Japanese? The single part of speech that symbolizes Hakata-ben for most people is the word &#8220;ttai&#8221; (or sometimes just &#8220;tai&#8221;). This is a suffix that is added to the end of sentences, and generally is used almost the same as &#8220;yo&#8221;, to tell the listener&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Genki Japanese and Culture School - Hakata-ben kouza: &quot;-ttai&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"News and commentary from GenkiJACS, a Japanese language school in Fukuoka, Japan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genkijacs.com\/blog\/hakata-ben-kouza\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genki Japanese and Culture School - 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