買い物します（かいものします、kaimonoshimasu）
- to shop
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買い物します (かいものします, romaji: kaimonoshimasu) means "to shop" in Japanese. It is a N5 High-level Verb (group 3) word.
| Meaning: | to shop |
| Level: | N5 High |
| Lexical Category: | Verb (group 3) (サ変動詞) |
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Verb Conjugation
Basic Conjugation
Romaji：kaimonoshimasu
Hiragana：かいものします
Polite-form (ます形) | かいものします買い物します。shop. |
Dict-form (辞書形) | 買い物するshop |
Connect-form (て形) | 買い物して + <Verb> |
Not-form (ない形) | 買い物しないnot shop |
Advanced Conjugation
Past-form (た形) | 買い物したshopped |
Terminal-form (終止形) | 買い物する。shop. |
If-form (仮定形) | 買い物すればif shop |
Let's-form (意志形) | 買い物しよう !let's shop |
Command-form (命令形) | 買い物しろ !shop ! |
AI Explanation
The Japanese word 買い物します means "to do shopping" or "to go shopping." It describes the act of purchasing goods or services. The verb includes the action itself.
⚫︎週末に、買い物します。 Translation: I will go shopping on the weekend. ⚫︎新しい服を買い物をします。 Translation: I will go shopping for new clothes. ⚫︎食料品の買い物に行きます。 Translation: I'm going to go grocery shopping.
⚫︎You use 買い物します when you want to talk about the activity of shopping. ⚫︎It's a versatile verb and can be used in various contexts, from buying groceries to purchasing luxury items. ⚫︎You often use it with time expressions (e.g., 今日、買い物します - I'll go shopping today) or location expressions (e.g., デパートで買い物します - I'll go shopping at the department store). ⚫︎買い物します itself is the dictionary form/ polite form of the verb, and it can be conjugated to fit different tenses and grammatical structures such as "買い物しました" (I went shopping) or "買い物しません" (I will not go shopping).
⚫︎The verb is typically written in hiragana and kanji: 買い物します. ⚫︎The kanji for 買い物 is used to represent "shopping," while します is the polite form of the verb "to do." ⚫︎The okurigana (hiragana following the kanji) is standardized, so there aren't many variations.
⚫︎ショッピングに行きます (shoppingu ni ikimasu) - to go shopping (a more direct and casual expression, especially for leisure shopping)
There aren't direct antonyms, but you could use words related to not purchasing or selling.
今日は、スーパーで買い物します。 ・Translation: I'm going to shop at the supermarket today. ・Explanation: This sentence describes the action of going shopping at the supermarket, the location of the shopping, and time of the shopping.
新しいカメラを買うために、買い物に出かけます。 ・Translation: I'm going out shopping to buy a new camera. ・Explanation: This sentence explains the purpose of going shopping - to buy a new camera. It uses the noun form 買い物 within the sentence.
The word is a combination of 買い物 (kaimono) which means "shopping" (literally "buy" (買) + "thing/object" (物)) and します (shimasu) which is the polite form of the verb "to do" (する, suru).