Hey everyone,
Back from Kyoto and straight into a new Japanese lesson 
Today’s lesson deals with asking about and giving schedule information.
Take English examples:
“What time is the meeting scheduled to start?”
“The meeting is scheduled to start at 9am.”
“When are you scheduled to go on Summer vacation?”
“I am scheduled to go on vacation in August.”
So, this is another relatively simple structure in Japanese:
INFORMATION + DICTIONARY VERB + yoteimasu
- or -
NON-VERB + NO particle + yoteimasu
So the key is yoteimasu.
Let’s do some examples:
“What time is the meeting scheduled to start?”
kaigi wa nan ji ni hajimaru yoteimasuka
Let’s break it down:
kaigi meeting
wa topic marker particle (“as for”)
nan what
ji time
ni direction particle (to)
hajimaru dictionary form of hajimarimasu (to start/begin)
yoteimasu to schedule
ka question particle
Okay? So it’s always dictionary form of verb and then yoteimasu…
…except if you don’t use a verb:
“It’s scheduled from 9 o’clock.”
ku ji kara no yoteimasu
Let’s break it down:
ku nine
ji time
kara from
no possessive particle ([of] or ['s])
yoteimasu to schedule
In the above example we added no before yoteimasu because there was no verb in the sentence.
So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to translate the following sentences to English:
1. natsu yasumi wa nan kagetsu ni iku yoteimasuka
2. hachi gatsu kara no yoteimasu
Okay?
The answers are at the bottom of the page.
Cheers,
David
1. “When are you scheduled to go on Summer vacation?”
2. “I am scheduled to go on vacation in August.”