How to ask someone if they want a drink.

[God]

There are many ways to ask a person if they want to go get a drink together, i was wondering if some of you could clue me in to translations for a few.

Would you like to go for a drink?
Do you want to go have a drink with me?

Is there a difference in those in the way they are said? Do the japanese have different ways of composing sentences that are closely the same.

Do you want to go get smashed?

or in short.

Wanna go get drunk?

[Fantt]

Well, in Pimsleur that's one of the first things they teach you. :D

It's probably not colloquial, but here's what I learned...

watashi to nani ka nomimasen ka?
Won't you have a drink with me?

watashi no tokoro de nomimasen ka?
Wouldn't you like to have a drink back at my place?

Nomimasen ka?
Wouldn't you like to have a drink?

Nani o nomimasu ka?
What would you like to drink?

I wouldn't doubt if I've screwed up some of the grammar, but harassing women is a skill learned early on with Pimsleur. :balloon:

[God]

Nomimasen ka? seems like a negative way...

perhaps it is more in relation to.

Do you not wish to drink? or plainly

Drink not?

Thanks for the input fantt

[Fantt]

Well, nomimasen ka means the same thing as Wouldn't you like to drink? which uses the english negative. And it sounds more convincing than Will you drink with me?

[Elizabeth]

"How about going back to my place for a drink?"

(Watashi no tokoro ni) Nomi ni ikemasenka (ikanai?)

Bi-ru demo nomi ni ikemasenka?


How about a drink?

Ippai (one cup) ikaga (dou) desuka (how about?)?


I'll try conjuring up some of the varients later....

[Glenn]

"How about going back to my place for a drink?"

(Watashi no tokoro ni) Nomi ni ikemasenka (ikanai?)

Bi-ru demo nomi ni ikemasenka?


How about a drink?

Ippai (one cup) ikaga (dou) desuka (how about?)?


I'll try conjuring up some of the varients later....

Shouldn't that be ikimasen?

I have a question, now. How about yottekoyouka or some varient of that? Or maybe yoi ni ikan? or something would be better? (this is for "let's get drunk")

[Elizabeth]

Shouldn't that be ikimasen?

I must have been thinking of .....sasete itadakemasenka? :p

[Glenn]

I must have been thinking of .....sasete itadakemasenka? :p

LOL. Touche. :p

[vorpar]

Hopefully I remember this correctly, you can say: Shall we drink?

のみましょか

Again, not entirely certain if alcohol would be implied.

おさけをのみましょか

[Glenn]

Well, the way you have it isn't wrong, but I would recommend putting another う in there. I.e. のみましょうか. This way is more formal.

[Elizabeth]

There used to be a funny, off-beat dialogue sentence in Japanese For Busy People (I?) about going for a drink after work which no one actually ever says, it may still be in an older edition or the I-II combined book, but one that I wish I could remember now. :p

[MeAndroo]

There's always the "ocha shinai" that I used. That seemed the best way to nanpa when we were there.

[Glenn]

Yeah, I was thinking of that one too, but I wasn't sure if it actually meant "do you want some tea?" :D

[MeAndroo]

Well, it does literally, but it's more of a kind of "wanna grab a cup of coffee or something?"

[Glenn]

Yeah, I know, which is why I wasn't sure whether it still has its original meaning. I'm thinking that it's been used so much to mean that, that no matter how or when you say it, it'll still mean, "wanna do it?" (well, maybe not that curt).

[God]

in terms of sexual reference or else wanna go grab a coffee/tea?

[Elizabeth]

:romance: I have a question, now. How about yottekoyouka or some varient of that? Or maybe yoi ni ikan? or something would be better? (this is for "let's get drunk")

一緒に酔って欲しい or 一緒に酔ってしまう should be clear enough for "I want us to get drunk together" or "let's get drunk together." :romance:

[Glenn]

in terms of sexual reference or else wanna go grab a coffee/tea?

In terms of sexual reference, of course. :p

[Elizabeth]

In terms of sexual reference, of course. :p
And 遣りましょう　should cover both contingencies. :cool:

遣る 【やる】 (v5r) (col) (uk) to do; to have sexual intercourse; to kill; to give (to inferiors, animals, etc.); to dispatch (a letter); to send; to study; to perform; to play (sports, game); to have (eat, drink, smoke); to row (a boat); to run or operate (a restaurant); (P)

[Glenn]

Yeah, that's a great verb, isn't it? It covers so many meanings; it's like a buffet! :D

[Mike Cash]

I must have been thinking of .....sasete itadakemasenka? :p

That's the line we save for after we get her to our place, silly.

[Scrivener]

Requests to "have a drink" probably would use "ippai" as mentioned above. Random Simpsons quote: "Let the record show that the witness made the drinky-drinky motion"

Get drunk is maybe "gan gan nomou you". Also "paatto yarou yo, paatto!" (let's get into it!)... (looking up my dictionary it has ぱあっと, ひとつ景気よくやろうじゃないか)

But I'm never confident going English to Japanese...