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In Japanese, there are two versions of the numbers 4 and 9. 4 can be "yon" or "shi". 9 can be "kyuu" or "ku". "Shi" also happens to mean death, and "ku" means suffering. For this reason, 4 and 9 are considered unlucky numbers, and sometimes apartment buildings and such will avoid having rooms numbered 4 and 9.

In Japanese, ka is like a verbal question mark, which you can add to statements to make them into yes or no questions. For example: そうですか Sōdesu ka = Is that so? そうです Sōdesu = That is so.

The word “paragraph” comes from two Greek words. “Para” in this case means “beside” and “graphe” means “writing.” This is because paragraphs used to be divided by a mark in the margin, so this mark was “beside the writing.”

Me 2: no, thanks.

(Just in case you find this sort of thing interesting.) Etc. stands for et cetera, which in Latin literally means “and the rest”. Et = and. Cetera = the rest.