Telling landlord hot water is broken: Scheduling a plumber for repair

🇯🇵 [大家さん] means your landlord in everyday Japanese. It's something you'd say when talking about them, not usually how you'd address them directly.

💬 [お湯] means hot water, while [水] is plain water. In Japan this distinction matters a lot in daily life, so [お湯が出ない] is a very common kind of complaint.

💬 [出る] literally means something like "come out," so [お湯が出ません] is literally "hot water doesn't come out." Japanese often uses this verb for utilities and machines too, like [水が出ない] or [お金が出ない].

💬 [出ません] literally means "doesn't come out," and that's the normal way to say water, gas, or similar things aren't working. You can reuse the pattern with other things: [水が出ません] or [お金が出ません].

🇯🇵 [あら。] is a mild, natural reaction like "oh," "oh dear," or "oops." It's especially common in softer or more old-fashioned speech, and often sounds more feminine than [あっ] or [えっ].

💬 The [う] in [大丈夫] makes a long sound: [じょう] is said as one stretched beat, not two separate vowels. [大丈夫？] can mean "Are you okay?" but also "Is that okay?" depending on context.

💬 [から] means "from," and with time words it often means "since": [きのうから] = "since yesterday," [9時から] = "from 9 o'clock."