day 41what do you do?
unit 6 · workwhat do you do?
Talk about jobs, pay and roles at work, and say what you tried to do or were about to do (～ようとする).
today’s words
- 職業 しょくぎょう · occupation, job
- 職 しょく · job, post, employment
- 就職 しゅうしょく · finding a job (after school)
- 失業 しつぎょう · unemployment, losing your job
- 勤め つとめ · work, job (at a company)
- 事務 じむ · office work, admin
- 作業 さぎょう · work, task (hands-on)
- 労働 ろうどう · labour, work
- 働き はたらき · work, efforts; function
- 給料 きゅうりょう · pay, salary
- 収入 しゅうにゅう · income
- 雇う やとう · to employ, hire
- 辞める やめる · to quit, resign (a job)
- 引退 いんたい · retirement (from a career)
- 同僚 どうりょう · colleague, co-worker
- 助手 じょしゅ · assistant
- 係 かかり · person in charge (of a task)
- 担当 たんとう · being in charge (of)
- 役 やく · role, part, post
- 役割 やくわり · role, part (one plays)
sentences
- 外出しようとした時、電話が鳴った。 · Just as I was about to go out, the phone rang.
- 兄は、会社を辞めようとしたが、課長に止められた。 · My brother tried to quit his company, but his section chief stopped him.
- 焼きたてのパンを、同僚と食べた。 · I ate some freshly baked bread with a colleague.
- 彼は、黙って仕事を辞めた。 · He quit his job without saying anything.
- つまり、給料が上がるということだ。 · In other words, my pay is going up.