Daily Japanese Story (≤ JLPT N5)






Featured Kanji
(あね・シ)
older sister

Vocabulary

  • — red
  • — bicycle
  • — home; my house
  • — bread
  • — to exist (inanimate); to have
  • — I; me
  • — supermarket
  • — to go
  • — to have; to hold; to carry
  • — older sister
  • — to use
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say

Grammar / Notes

  • Permission with (asking “May I…?”). Example: Here, becomes , and asks for permission.
  • Resultant state with (a continuing state, often from a completed action like “have/own”). Example: The pattern means “has/owns (and still has).”

English

The Red Bicycle

There is no bread at home.
I want to go to the supermarket.
But, I do not have a bicycle.
My older sister has a red bicycle.
I asked my sister, “May I use it?”
My sister said, “Sure.”