頭あたまの上うえの眼鏡めがね






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(よむ・トク)
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Vocabulary

  • — head
  • — on top of; above
  • — glasses
  • — Sunday
  • — morning
  • — I; me
  • — house; home
  • — warm
  • — tea (green tea)
  • — to drink
  • — after that; then
  • — newspaper
  • — to read
  • — there isn’t; I don’t have (polite negative of あります)
  • — desk
  • — under; below
  • — to see; to look
  • — wife
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — really; truly
  • — immediately; right away

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜たり〜たりします lists two or more actions as examples of what someone does, without claiming these are the only ones or fixing their order. (“I did things like looking under the desk and asking my wife.”)

English

Glasses on the Head

On Sunday morning, I drank warm green tea at home.
Then, I wanted to read the newspaper, but my glasses were not there.
I did things like looking under the desk and asking my wife.
My wife said, “They are on your head.”
The glasses were really on my head.
I said, “Ah, is that so,” and immediately read the newspaper.