Lesson 42

Friday, January 21st, 2022

Today’s business Japanese is “Ma-kka”.

What does it mean?

 

It literally means “Very Red”.   Very red?

It is used in accounting field.

 

This means “Big loss”.

“Aka” is “Red”, meaning unprofitable.  Therefore, “Ma-kka”means “The loss is big”.

 

For example, we say, “Kyonen wa ma-kka datta.”, meaning “The loss was big last year.”

 

On the contrary, “Kuro (Black)” means profitable.

 

I hope everyone goes in black in 2022! 




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