Your Pocket Wi-Fi Just Died and Your Hotel Code Was Inside It
To say it broke / it's not working in Japanese, say 壊れました (kowaremashita).
Your pocket Wi-Fi is dead, your hotel code was inside it, and it is Sunday. One sentence gets a replacement.
In this video
- 壊れました。 kowaremashita. It's broken.
- すみません、これ、壊れました。 sumimasen, kore, kowaremashita. Excuse me, this is broken.
Kanji in this phrase
- 壊れました
- こわれました
Why this phrase
Dialogue: Kofuku is the tourist at the rental counter with a dead pocket Wi-Fi and no other maps; Hana runs the counter. Kofuku slides the dead device over and says 壊れました, Hana responds with the standard two options, swap right now or coming right up. The takeaway is 壊れました, the polite past of 'it broke', the all-purpose sentence for every gadget failure on the trip. Note the pattern difference versus つながらない: the internet on the phone being down is fine, the device itself dying is 壊れました.
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