What is the word for I'll cook some food in Japanese?

Answer 1

To say what you will do in Japanese, you can use the volitional verb tense. In this case, a base verb for "to cook" is 料理をする (ryouri wo suru), and to make it volitional it becomes 料理をしよう (ryouri wo shiyou). A lot of the time though, volitional tense is use to say "let's do x", so you might want to clarify in this case that you are going to cook, by including yourself as the subject [you can do this using any self-identifying noun and the は (ha) particle]. Another thing to note is that 料理 (ryouri) can also be used with 作る (tsukuru), which has the volitional form 作ろう (tsukurou), however this is used to indicate "making" food and does not have the same "preparation" context that　料理をする has. Thus, using 作ろう would be more like saying "I'll make some food", instead of "I'll cook some food". Finally, Japanese has a few nouns for the generic concept of "food", those are 食品 (shokuhin), 食物 (shokumotsu), and another would be 食べ物 (tabemono, lit: things you eat). Applying all these concepts, we can generate quite a few sentences for saying "I'll cook some food". One such sentence would be 私は食べ物を料理しよう (watashi ha tabemono wo ryouri shiyou).