えきねこ






Featured Kanji
(ながい・チョウ)
long

Vocabulary

  • — station
  • — cat
  • — yesterday
  • — afternoon (p.m.)
  • — I; me
  • — train
  • — to wait
  • — long
  • — bench
  • — to sit; to sit down
  • — white
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — quietly
  • — over there (polite)
  • — to go
  • — to say

Grammar / Notes

  • Permission: V-form + = “May I…?/Is it okay if I…?” Example: means “May I sit here?”
  • Adverbial use: adjective + to make an adverb (especially -adjectives). Example: Here (quiet) + becomes (quietly).

English

The Station Cat

Yesterday afternoon, I waited for the train at the station.
I wanted to sit on the long bench.
However, there was a white cat on the bench.
I asked the cat, “May I sit here?”
The cat went over there quietly.
I said “Thank you” and sat down.