【不可算名詞】go to school / go to bed に”the”がつかないのはなぜ？この真実について詳しく解説します！

In Japanese, there is no kanji. If you can have an image, I think the English world will be more and more interesting. Hello everyone. I'm Roy Nishizawa, an English doctor. On this channel, I teach you how to learn English in an unconventional way that makes difficult English easy. Roy-san. Yes. There is an expression called go to school. Why don't you use kanji? No, you can use kanji. What? Can I use kanji? That's right. However, if you use kanji or not, the meaning will be different. Go to school and go to the school. Also, bed. Not only go to bed. For example, you can also say go to your bed. Both are correct English. It is important to understand the meaning of both. In this video, I will teach you why you can't use kanji for go to school and go to bed. First of all, let's start with go to school. As a way of teaching at school, I learned from go to school. Suddenly, only the form of go to school comes out. This is one of the reasons why it is difficult to understand. There is no kanji for the noun school. This is called mukanshi. In other words, it is used as a plural noun without counting. Then, let's think about the form of counting from the school. For example, if you say a school or schools, it will be used as a plural noun. This plural noun means that there is a concrete form that can be counted. The basics of this area are explained in detail in another video. If you haven't seen it yet, please check it out. If you use this school as a plural noun and say a school, Do you know what you are pointing at? Is it a school building? That's fine. If you say a school with a concrete form that can be counted, I think it is general to imagine a school building. For example, you can also say this. I go to two schools. Do you understand the meaning, Tony? I go to two schools. That's right. I think it was easy, I wanted to tell you that you can also say other than go to school. And here it is emphasized that there are two. Because it's two schools. Words change depending on where you focus. If you say a plural noun like go to school, The focus is different. go to school This is used as a plural noun without counting the school. The plural noun represents that there is no concrete form that can be counted. Do you have an image of a school without a concrete form, Tony? I don't have an image. If you say I go to two schools, You imagine a building of two schools. On the other hand, if you say a school without a concrete form, It's not a matter of physically going to the school building. It's not physically going, There is a focus elsewhere. Tony, what is the purpose of going to school? Is it a lunch break? Well, there may be such people. In the original sense, if you say what the purpose of going to school is, it's studying. Well, yes. In other words, go to school sounds like going to take a class. In fact, I think this is close to posting in Japanese. For example, I go to school in the morning, I skip class and stay on the roof all the time, I skip class and go to karaoke, If you go back to school after school and only go to club activities, Can you say you posted it? I don't think so. That's right. For example, if you go to the school next door, Can you say you posted it? I can't say that. The English word go to school is the same. There is a school where I am registered, I go to take a class there. That's posting and go to school. So it's not just a matter of going to school physically. If you want to talk about going physically, For example, if you want to say that you went to school to do club activities, You can say go to the school. It is specified in the school you go to, so it becomes the school. This is not go to school. For example, if there was a man around 30 years old, Let's say you went to school to fix a broken window. You can say that he went to a school to repair broken windows. In particular, it means going to a school that is not specified, So it becomes go to a school. So go to school. You may have memorized that you can't attach a kanji to the school, You can say go to a school, You can also say go to the school. Each has a different meaning. Even so, you can only learn go to school, So it's a shame that you can't attach a kanji to the school. I see. I understand well about go to school. Next, let's go to bed. This is also a way to attach a kanji. You can also say it as an adverb. However, I don't think there are many situations where you can say go to a bed. And I think there are more ways to say go to your bed than go to the bed. It's like saying your own bed. In the first place, there is an adverb called a bed, It's like saying it's my bed because it's mine. So this my bed, your bed is the same as having a kanji. It's an adverb. For example, if you want to say, I'll read you a picture book, so go to bed. This is not go to bed. Because if you say go to bed, it means go to bed. In this case, for example, Go to your bed and I'll come read you a bedtime story. It's like saying go to your bed. And at this time, it means going to your bed in a physical sense. So what is go to bed? It doesn't mean physically going to bed. The purpose is important. What is the purpose of the bed, Tony? Is it to sleep? That's right. The bed is a tool to sleep. That's why go to bed is to go to bed, Go inside and rest as it is. The purpose is to sleep or rest. By the way, is Tony a bed person or a futon person? I'm a bed person. Here, I'm not a bed person, I'm a futon person. Even if you say go to bed, there's no problem. On the contrary, it might be interesting to say go to futon. I think it would be interesting to use it for foreigners who know a lot about Japan. Just don't use the word futon. So I think it's okay to say go to bed. And as a bonus, I would like to introduce some phrases that use the word bed as a noun. First, stay in bed. This means to stay in bed. It's like waking up and not getting up. And to get out of bed is to get out of bed. Don't you say get up when you wake up? That's a good question. Get up is to wake up from sleep. It represents all of that. So, for example, I get up at 6. I wake up at 6. You can use it like that. This get up is a synonym for go to bed. And get out of bed is to get out of bed when you're already awake. By the way, if you want to say crawl out of bed, you can also say crawl out of bed. Does it mean the same as swimming crawl? Yes. If you do it on the ground, you'll crawl. I see. Fall out of bed is to fall out of bed. By the way, you can also say fall off the bed. Do you know the difference, Tony? Fall off, fall out. Don't forget to watch this. Fall out of bed and fall off the bed. Fall off is to sit. Fall out of bed is not attached. The point to understand this difference is the original expression. In the case of fall out of bed, the original is in bed. In other words, you're in bed and you're probably sleeping. You fall from there. That's why you have a bad sleep and you fall off the edge of the bed. That's fall out of bed. On the other hand, in the case of fall off the bed, the original state is on the bed. It's not about sleeping because it's on the bed. It's about being physically on the bed. This bed is an adverb. In other words, you're physically on the bed and you're falling from there. So it's not about sleeping or sleeping. You can use it when you're on the bed and you're falling from there. For example, a baby falls from a baby bed. It can also be a thing. Pillows on the bed and alarm clocks fall. They're not originally in bed. It was physically on the bed. It's falling from there, so it's off the bed. Oh, I see. It's a completely different image. There may be a lot of people who fall out of bed or fall off the bed. It's completely different when you can imagine it like this. So I think you can see that the meaning is quite different between being on the bed and not being on the bed. It's the same with school. It's not about being on the bed and not being on the bed. It's about what the focus is. Is it about going to school or going to school? Or is it about going to a building or a place called a school? That kind of difference appears in the meaning of kanji. There is no kanji in Japanese. So I tend to think it's just a word. Actually, it has a deeper meaning. I think the English world will be more and more interesting if you can enjoy it and have an image of it. I was wondering why the Go-to-school and Go-to-bed I've been memorizing so far didn't make sense. It was a little strange. It's like going to school or going to bed. I realized that it wasn't physically pointing to something because it represented the purpose. I thought it was amazing. I learned a lot today. Thank you very much. Thank you for watching the video until the end. 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