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Sonja McGough wrote:
Hi all,
could anyone tell me what the Japanese word for "group" would be? I mean "group" as in a group of people i.e. the people who do aikido together in a dojo.
Thanks very much for your help,
Sonja
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Not surprisingly in a group oriented society, there are many, many words for "group". There's the English loanword グループ "guruupu". There's the old Chinese standby 集団 "shuudan". There's the words for teams 球団 "kyuudan", and words for a bunch of people 連中 "renchuu". If I refered to the people I do aikido with, I'd probably say 道場 "dojo" or 道場の人たち "dojo no hitotachi" "the people at the dojo". A more official phrasing would probably be 道場の会員たち "dojo no kaiin-tachi", "members of the dojo".
If you could tell us how you want to use the word it'd be a lot easier to find the right word for what you want to say.