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Tanaka	:	Moosugu Oshoogatsu desu ne.
Smith	:	Ee. Oshoogatsu no yotei wa kimarimashita ka?
Tanaka	:	Ee, inaka ni kaeru tsumori desu. Smith-san wa kuni ni kaerimasu ka?
Smith	:	Iie. Kotoshi no Oshoogatsu wa kaeranai tsumori desu.
Tanaka	:	Nani o shimasu ka?
Smith	:	Tomodachi ga Nihon ni kimasu. Dakara, isshoni ryokoo suru tsumori desu.
Tanaka	:	Tomodachi wa itsu Nihon ni kimasu ka?
Smith	:	30-nichi ni kuru yotei desu.
Tanaka	:	Itsu made Nihon ni iru yotei desu ka?
Smith	:	Isshuukan gurai iru yotei desu.

Tanaka	:	The New Year is coming up.
Smith	:	That's right. Have you decided your schedule for the New Year?
Tanaka	:	Yes. I'm planning to go back to my hometown. Are you going back to your country?
Smith	:	No. I don't plan to go back this year.
Tanaka	:	What are you going to do?
Smith	:	My friend is coming to Japan. So we are planning to go on a trip together.
Tanaka	:	When is your friend coming to Japan?
Smith	:	He is coming on 30th.
Tanaka	:	How long does he/she plan to stay in Japan?
Smith	:	He/She plans to stay for about a week.

Key Sentences

Boonasu de kuruma o kau tsumori desu.

I plan to buy a car with my bonus.

Natsu-yasumi tomodachi to ryokoo suru tsumori desu.

I plan to make a trip with my friend during the summer vacation.

Fuyu-yasumi sukii ni iku tsumori desu.

I intend to go skiing for winter holidays.

Kotoshi no natsu-yasumi kuni ni kaeranai tsumori desu.

I don't intend to go home (lit. country) during this summer's holidays.

Hikooki wa 10-ji ni kuukoo ni tsuku yotei desu.

The flight is scheduled to arrive at the airport at 10 o'clock.

Kaigi wa 3-ji ni owaru yotei desu.

The meeting is expected to finish at 3 o'clock.

Grammar Notes

Tsumori desu "I plan to do"

Tsumori desu shows the speaker's intention. It can be translated into "I'm planning to do" or "I intend to do". This pattern follows the verb root form or nai form.
When the speaker states his intention which he had in the past, the root form + tsumori deshita is used.

tsumori

1.	Boonasu de kuruma o kau tsumori desu.

I plan to buy a car with my bonus.

2.	Kotoshi no Oshoogatsu wa kuni ni kaeranai tsumori desu.

I plan not (don't plan) to go back to my country for this New Year.

3.	Boonasu de kuruma o kau tsumori deshita ga, yamemashita.

I was planning to buy a car with my bonus, but I changed my mind.

Yotei desu "be expected" or "be scheduled"

Yotei is a noun meaning "schedule" or "plan"; e.g., raishuu no yotei "next week's schedule."
The Functional Pattern, verb root form or nai form + yotei desu means "be expected" "be planed" or "be scheduled" which is often used to state the schedule of a person or an event.
The functional pattern tsumori desu expresses the speaker's intention, whereas yotei desu doesn't express any intention.

yotei

1.	Resepushon wa 5-ji ni owaru yotei desu.

The reception is scheduled to finish at 5 o'clock.

2.	Hikooki wa 3-ji ni kuukoo ni tsuku yotei desu.

The flight is expected to arrive at the airport at 3 o'clock.

3.	Brown-san wa ashita Nihon ni kuru yotei desu.

Brown is expected to come to Japan tomorrow.

Verb nai Form

Japanese verbs have inflection. They are classified into three groupings according to the way they are conjugated.

Please see the "Verb Section" on this web site about the verb conjugation and root form.

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Vocabulary

boonasu

bonus

dakara

so, therefore, because

particle indicating a means, way or method, "by"

deshita

past form of desu

yes

fuyu-yasumi

winter holidays, winter vacation

particle indicating a subject or used in wa-ga structure

ga (-ga)

(fp) a connective meaning "but" or giving a preliminary

gurai

about, approximately

hikooki

airplane, aircraft, flight

iie

ikimasu

to go

iku

root form of ikimasu

imasu

to be at, stay, exist / to have

iru

root form of imasu

inaka

contryside, one's home town

isshoni

together

isshuukan

one week

itsu

when

ji (-ji)

o'clock, time

kaerimasu

to return, go home

kaeru

root form of kaerimasu

kaeranai

nai form of kaerimasu

kaigi

meeting, conference

kaimasu

to buy

kau

root form of kaimasu

kimarimasu

to be decided, be fixed, be arranged

kimasu

to come

kuru

root form of kimasu

kotoshi

this year

kuni

country, nation, home country, home town

kuruma

car

kuukoo

airport

made

till, until, to

moosugu

soon

nani

what

natsu-yasumi

summer holidays, summer vacation

particle indicating an indirect object or a direction of an action

particle indicating a specific time

nichi (-nichi)

days of the month

particle used between two nouns

particle indicating an object

Oshoogatsu (Shoogatsu)

the New Year, New Year's Day

owarimasu

to end, finish, over

owaru

root form of owarimasu

resepushon

reception (party)

ryokoo

travel, trip, journey

shimasu

to do, play, forming shimasu verb

suru

root form of shimasu

sukii

ski, skiing

tomodachi

friend

tsukimasu

to arrive

tsuku

root form of tsukimasu

tsumori (-tsumori desu)

(fp) expressing intention; plan to do

particle indicating a topic or a subject

yamemasu

to stop doing, give up, cancel

yotei

a schedule, plan

yotei (-yotei desu)

(fp) expressing plan, schedule; be expected

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