How do I say “SHOPPING” in Japanese? Thanks!?

♡Already got good answers, but I’ll just add this so you can check it yourself:

http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&…

http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.ph…

Of course you can say “kaimono” = keye mo no

or I personally politely say “okaimono” = oh keye mo no. (*As Mimi said.)

Just my two cents. Hope it helps!

I live in Japan and say and go shopping a lot!

♪Okaimono, okaimono, okaimono!♪

The SEIBU department has a famous dancing bear CM singing “okaimono, okaimono….” CUTE!♡

Japanese Shopping

Say Shopping

Yes it is Domo or Arigatou or Domo Arigatou as said above, it is not with the Doumo, that much I know too. I study martial arts also and we use Japanese in the class only I am not a teacher I am still a student and this is how my Japanese Sensei taught us. I can’t write out the kanji on my keyboard.

kau (shop or buy) + mono(thing)= kaimono

kaimono o shimasu: (to)shop

kaimono o ikimasu: go shopping

No, it is not shoppin-gooo.

買い物 (ka i mo no)

I don’t know if you want to use it as a verb, but if you do, it is 買い物する (ka i mo no su ru) and the u sounds are very short.

明日買い物します。 (a shi ta ka i mo no shi ma su) but it sounds more like ashta ka i mo no shimass)

す(su) and し (shi) are almost always very short sounds.

Two thumbs down? Do people just close their eyes and point?

Actually, the guy above made some mistakes as to the actual pronunciation of both words, but it was a good idea anyway.

Think of it this way:

買物　かいもの　kaimono

kai (rhymes with “guy”)

mono (rhymes with Yoko Ono)

ショッピング　shoppingu

Shaw (surname)

Pingu (the penguin)

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If you used the other guide, you’d be saying:

かいまな　kaimana (which means nothing in Japanese)

He could’ve used a much more accurate example for the final “u” on shoppingu too. It’s NOT like the “oo” of “cook”. It’s more like “goo”, like something gooey.

okaimono (o-kai-mono) — used mostly by women

kaimono (kai-mono) — used by both men and women

shoppingu (shoppin’ gu: “gu” as in “guru”) — usually used for “window shopping”… “wu-in-doe shoppin’ gu”

ka-i-mo-no

“Ka” as in CAr

“i” as in India

“mo” as in MOney

“no” as in NOthing

Some young people also say “shop-pin-gu” which is prounouced the same as in English only with the “u” sound added. That is pronounced like the the middle sound in “cOOk”.

***EDIT*** Butterworth, I don’t know about you but I don’t say “NAthing” I say “NOthing”! Also there is no long sound to the “gu” it is very short and not at all like “goo”. That would be wrong.

Plus “Shaw” has too long a vowel sound for the “sho”. There are no long vowel sounds in “shoppingu.”

ka i mo no, i am 11 and i go to a school where i learn japanese!!!!!!!!!!!!! so you can trust me