足あしの下したの切符きっぷ






Featured Kanji
(ひがし・トウ)
east

Vocabulary

  • — foot; leg
  • — under; below
  • — ticket
  • — winter vacation
  • — I; me
  • — Tokyo Station
  • — to be (for people/animals); to exist
  • — bag
  • — heavy
  • — a little
  • — to get tired
  • — Shinkansen (bullet train)
  • — to ride; to get on
  • — before; in front of
  • — to lose (something)
  • — station
  • — person
  • — to say
  • — to be (for things); to exist

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜から (because) at the end of a clause gives the reason for what follows: ‘because A, B’. The reason clause comes first and may end in the polite form. (“Because my bag was heavy, I got a little tired.”)
  • 〜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. (“I said to the station staff, ‘I don’t have my ticket.’”)

English

The Ticket Under the Foot

During the winter vacation, I was at Tokyo Station.
Because my bag was heavy, I got a little tired.
Before getting on the Shinkansen, I lost my ticket.
I said to the station staff, “I don’t have my ticket.”
The station staff said, “It is right there.”
The ticket was under my foot.