![]() ![]() In Japanese you will often be asked by your teachers and friends the following question – “O genki desu ka”, so what is the correct response for this greeting? So there are several ways that you can use Genki as both a greeting and an adjective in spoken Japanese. Often you will hear younger people describing their elders as “Genki” – this means that even though someone is advanced in years – they are still in good spirits and young at heart. When you put the words together – the word genki is taken to mean, “lively, full of spirit, energetic, vidorous, vital, healthy, well, fit, in good health” 気 ( き, ki) - energy, spirit, mind, air, breath, atmosphere, mood.元 ( げん, gen) - beginning, origin, foundation, the source of something.This is a combination of two Kanji that are nouns – and the word genki itself is a na adjective. The word genki is written in Japanese kanji as 元気 What does O genki desu ka mean in Japanese ![]() In this blog we will teach you all about the phrase O genki desu ka and show you how you can use it when speaking Japanese. It is so common a phrase for beginner learners that there is even a Japanese learning textbook called “Genki” (We use this textbook series in our intensive courses as well.) This is true for our Japanese lessons as well. In many Japanese learning textbooks – お元気ですか is one of the first phrases that you will learn. If you have been learning Japanese for any amount of time – you have likely heard this phrase. O genki desu ka is a phrase in Japanese that means “How are you?” ![]()
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