公園こうえんの赤あかい自転車じてんしゃ






Featured Kanji
(かえる・キ)
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Vocabulary

  • — park
  • — red
  • — bicycle
  • — Saturday
  • — afternoon / p.m.
  • — to go
  • — one hour
  • — about / approximately
  • — to take a walk
  • — to go home / to return
  • — time / when
  • — man
  • — to see / to look
  • — to say
  • — big
  • — tree
  • — behind / back
  • — to exist (inanimate objects)
  • — to tell / to teach
  • — I’m glad / it was good

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ぐらい / 〜くらい (about) or after an amount or a length of time means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’. (“I took a walk in the park for about an hour.”)
  • 〜と言いいます (say that) reports what someone says, and marks the reported content. An indirectly reported clause normally takes the plain form. A direct quotation in keeps the speaker’s original wording. (“The man told me, ‘It is behind that big tree.’”)

English

The Red Bicycle in the Park

On Saturday afternoon, I went to the park by bicycle.
I took a walk in the park for about an hour.
But when I was going home, my bicycle was not there.
I said to a man, “Did you see my red bicycle?”
The man told me, “It is behind that big tree.”
I was glad because my bicycle was behind the tree.