Expressions to Wish Good Luck in Japanese

Japanese is effectively the sole language of Japan, and almost all of the 128 million natives speak it.  Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is a topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名). Latin script is used in a limited fashion, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals alongside traditional Chinese numerals. Outside of Japan, 2.98 million people in 133 countries are studying the language at 13,639 institutions, according to a 2006 survey by the Japan Foundation. This number, up 26.4 per cent from the previous survey in 2003, does not include people teaching themselves or taking private lessons.

good luck

幸運 

ko-un

 

Good luck! 

幸運を祈る 

ko-un o inoru

 

I wish you Good Luck

幸運を祈ります

kouun wo inorimasu

 

Good Luck (casual)

頑張って

ganbatte

 

今日のテストを頑張って！

kyou no tesuto wo ganbatte!

Good Luck on the test today!

 

Good Luck (Formal)

頑張ってください

ganbatte kudasai

 

Good Luck (Feminine)

頑張ってね！ 

Ganbatte ne!

 

Hang in there!/Go for it!/Keep at it!

頑張れ

ganbare

 

You can do it

君ならできる

kimi nara dekiru

 

I believe in you

あなたに信じる

anata ni shinjiru

Good Luck and Be Careful

気を付けて

kiwotsukete

 

Good luck and be careful on your travels!

旅行を気を付けて！

ryokou wo kiwotsukete!

 

All the Best/Best of Luck

お元気で

ogenki de

 

Hold on!/Keep at it!/Do your best!

頑張れ！

Ganbare!

 

I’m wishing for both your good luck and your happiness

あなたの幸運と幸せを祈っています

Anata-no kooun-to shiawase-o inotte-imasu

 

I wish you good luck and happiness

ご健勝とご多幸をお祈り致します

Gokenshoo-to gotakoo-o oinori itashimasu

 

Wish you good luck and happiness

幸運と幸福をお祈りします

Kōun to kōfuku o oinori shimasu

 

Wish you good luck

幸運を願っています

Kōun o negatte imasu

 

All the best to you

よろしくお願いします

Yoroshikuonegaishimasu

 

Wish you success

あなたの成功を祈って

Anata no seikō o inotte

There is no information available about the language’s prehistory or when it first appeared in Japan. A few Japanese words were documented in Chinese records dating back to the third century, but significant texts did not exist until the eighth century. Furthermore, following the end of Japan’s self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly. English loanwords, in particular, have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.

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