Japan, as you might guess, is a bit of a hotbed of the Japanese language. The natural environment is ripe for sentence-mining. With that in mind, I’ve been taking pictures and collecting random everyday objects (advertisements, cereal boxes), with Japanese in them, to use for sentence-learning. You can do this outside of Japan, too, if you just buy lots of Japanese-language stuff, even food.

Anyway, so this comes from me buying clothes this past weekend.

Q: 服を着る
A:　ふく　を　きる (PL2)
ふく【服】①着る物｡衣服｡
きる【着る】①衣服を身につける｡｢洋服を着る｣｢錦を着て故郷に帰る｣
にしき【錦】立派な着物｡　(This, by the way, is an example of a definition of a word in the definition. This is one of the cool things about using Japanese only, there’s this great recursion whereby one word leads you to the next
Clothes [object] wear
To wear clothes

Q: 服を試着する
A:　ふく　を　し・ちゃく　する(PL2)
ふく【服】
しちゃく【試着】体に合うかどうか試しに着て見ること｡
Clothes [object] try-fit do
To try on clothes

Q: 試着室で服を着て見る
A:　し・ちゃく・しつ　で　ふく　を　きて　みる (PL2)
しちゃく【試着】体に合うかどうか試しに着て見ること｡
しつ【室】部屋
へや【〈部屋〉】①家の中をいくつかに仕切ったものの一つ｡室｡間｡
ふく【服】①着る物｡衣服｡
きる【着る】①衣服を身につける｡｢洋服を着る｣｢錦を着て故郷に帰る｣
みる【見る】①｢ある動作を試みにする｣の意を表す
Fitting-room at clothes [object] wear-see
To try on clothes in the fitting room
■見る is used as an auxiliary (helper) verb. In this case, it’s helping the verb 着る (to wear). It has the meaning of (“try and see”), like “let’s try and see [if it works]“, a lot like in English.

Q: お客様へ
A:　御　きゃく　さま　へ (PL4)
[Honorable] customer [honorific] to
To our dear customers
■様（さま） is like さん, but even more polite. There is one word more polite than 様, and that is 殿（どの）. I’ve only ever seen 殿 used in documents, in spoken language it seems to have become kind of archaic now.

Q: フィティングルームへの商品のお持込は3点まででお願いします
A: ふぃてぃんぐ　るーむ　への　しょう・ひん　の　お　もちこみ　は　３　てん　まで　で　お ねがい します (PL3-4)
Fitting-room [object] products/items [of] [honorable] bringing-in [as-for] 3 [counter] up-to [at] [honorable] request do
Please feel free to bring up to 3 items into the fitting room
(i.e. Please bring in no more than 3 items to the fitting room)
■持つ（もつ）= to hold/bring
■込む（こむ）= to insert/enter a lot of something
■持込む(もちこむ）= to bring in
■込む(こむ) is an auxiliary (helper) verb, that adds the meaning of inserting/entering (into) a place…
■する（する）= to do.　します comes from する
■This sign on the inside says フィティングルーム,　but the one on the outside says 試着室(し・ちゃく・しつ）. Same meaning, but the kanji word seems more common to me.
■お願いします is very, very common in Japanese. It basically means “please”.

Q: 椅子の必要なお客様はレジカウンター迄お申し付け下さい
A:　い・す　の　ひつ・よう　な　おきゃく・さま　は（わ)　れじ　かうんたー　まで　おもうしつけ　ください(PL4)
Chair [of] need [adjective-suffix] [honorable] customers [honorific] [as-for] register-counter up-to [honorable] notification please
Most honorable customers requiring a chair, kindly make your request known at the (cash) register counter
■申し付ける(もうしつける), to tell/order — always carries the connotation of someone higher (socially) talking to someone lower (socially). In this case, a customer to an employee at a business, since the customer is always right and all.
もうしつ･ける【申し付ける】〔上の者が下の者に対して〕言い渡す｡言いつける｡命令する｡｢何なりとお申し付け下さい｣