Japanese Learning (A6 S31): Saying publicly and officially Something is Scheduled, Not about your personal will; [Verb Clause]+ Yotei desu. / [Active Noun] no Yotei desu.

The main items to learn in the section 31 are expressions to say your will. Just review the sentence constructions that we have learned recently.

1. Watashi wa Nihon e Ikou to Omotte imasu.

(I have been thinking about going to Japan.)

2. Watashi wa Shourai Nihon ni Ryuugaku-shuru Tsumori desu.

(I intend to be an international student in Japan in the future.)

The sentence 1 of A3 expresses a will that a person is currently thinking and/or has been thinking for a while. The sentence 2 of A5 expresses a strong will of a person who has determined about it. The two sentences are both about a will. Is there any other thing common to the two? The subject is “Watashi(I)” for either sentence. And the will that is expressed is a personal one. Actually, the sentences like 1 and 2 are not suitable to a public statement, an official job schedules, and alike.

Today’s expressions;

[Verb Clause]+ Yotei desu. / [Active Noun] no Yotei desu.

are suitable to talk about something planned officially and/or publicly. Sometimes this “Yotei desu” can be used when the subject is “Watashi”, but for the clear distinction to personal willingness, it is better to deal only with the subjects other than “Watashi” for the time being.

The followings are examples of today’s sentence construction;

[Verb Clause]+ Yotei desu.

– Buchou wa Raishuu Honsha e Iku Yotei desu. (It is scheduled that the manager is going to the headquarter next week.)

– Shinkansen wa JuuSan-ji ni Toukyou ni Tsuku Yotei desu. (The high-speed train is arriving in Tokyo at 13 o’clock.)

Note that train times are often stated using the 24-hour clock. In this case, Tsuku is not 付くbut 着く in kanji.

[Active Noun] no Yotei desu.

– Raishuu wa Koujou-Kengaku no Yotei desu. (A factory tour is scheduled next week.)

Koujou: noun; factory   Kengaku: noun(-suru); tour to learn, observe and inspect.

Perhaps “Watashi” can be a subject of this sentence in the form below;

– Raishuu, Watashi wa Koujou-Kengaku no Yotei desu.

This sentence is not your personal willingness, but a kind of official statement about your job.

– Gogo wa Gemba-Kantoku no Yotei desu. (Supervising the site is scheduled in the afternoon.)

“Gemba-Kantoku” is not a word of beginner’s level vocabulary, sorry. But I have to be careful about wording in order to avoid copyright issue.

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This post was written with reference to the exercise A6 on Section31 of “Minna no Nihongo (2nd Edition)” published by “3A Corporation”