LEARN + JAPANESE / 37 of 186 JLPT N5
Here's the Plan つもり
Your friend asks what you’ll do after graduation. つもり states an intention you’ve already settled on, so the answer sounds firmer than a passing idea.
I plan to wake up early every morning.
I don't plan to eat cake.
Hint · 힌트
つもり sounds more settled and deliberate than たい, which just names a want. “I want to wake up early” doesn’t guarantee anything, “I plan to wake up early” frames it as a decision you’ve already made.
I plan to travel with a friend.
I plan to be in Japan for about a week.
Hint · 힌트
つもりでした, the past tense, describes a plan you had, often one that fell through, “I was planning to,” implying things didn’t go that way after all, distinct from つもりです which is still an active plan.
Vocabulary
| Japanese | English |
|---|---|
| every morning | |
| to clean | |
| boxed lunch | |
| travel, trip | |
| to stay overnight | |
| one week | |
| plan | |
| to decide | |
| to resolve, make up one's mind | |
| to change (a plan) | |
| to carry out | |
| goal | |
| the future | |
| to reserve, book | |
| to participate | |
| to continue | |
| to quit, stop | |
| to postpone | |
| seriousness, being serious | |
| resolve, readiness |
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