あめのバスていでおちゃだけ






Featured Kanji
(ちいさい・ショウ)
small

Vocabulary

  • — rain
  • — bus stop
  • — tea
  • — yesterday
  • — friend
  • — to wait
  • — nine o’clock
  • — ten o’clock
  • — to come
  • — a little
  • — lonely
  • — next to, neighbor
  • — small
  • — shop
  • — to buy
  • — person
  • — cold (weather/feeling cold)
  • — to say
  • — to drink

Grammar / Notes

  • expresses a time range. In the story, means “(My friend) didn’t come from 9 to 10.” You can use it with many actions: 95, .
  • expresses a limit: “only / just.” In the story, means “I bought only tea (and nothing else).” It can limit nouns and quantities: 1, .
  • Polite past narration (/ tells a completed event. The story uses this throughout, e.g., .

English

Only tea at the bus stop in the rain

Yesterday, I waited for my friend at a bus stop in the rain.
But my friend did not come from 9 o’clock to 10 o’clock.
I felt a little lonely.
I bought only tea at the small shop next door.
The person at the shop said, “Are you cold?”
At 10 o’clock my friend came, and we drank tea together.