一人ひとりの高たかい昼ひるごはん






Featured Kanji
(なかば・ハン)
half

Vocabulary

  • — alone; one person
  • — expensive; high
  • — lunch
  • — I; me
  • — now
  • — restaurant
  • — Maria (polite name)
  • — to wait
  • — always; usually
  • — 12 o’clock
  • — to come
  • — today
  • — half (e.g., 〜時じ半はん = half past)
  • — phone; telephone
  • — to make (a phone call)
  • — family
  • — to eat
  • — to say
  • — promise; appointment
  • — to forget
  • — very
  • — regretful; disappointing

Grammar / Notes

  • Frequency adverbs Adverbs such as , and say how often something happens and stand before the verb. goes with a negative verb and means ‘not much’. (“Maria always comes at 12 o’clock, but today she is not here.”)
  • 〜ています (in progress) attaches to the て-form and describes an action that is going on right now, like the English ‘-ing’ form. (“I am waiting for Maria at the restaurant now.”)

English

An Expensive Lunch Alone

I am waiting for Maria at the restaurant now.
Maria always comes at 12 o’clock, but today she is not here.
Because it is already 12:30, I made a phone call.
Maria said, “Sorry, I am eating a meal with my family now.”
Because Maria forgot our promise, I was very disappointed.
I ate an expensive lunch alone.