本屋ほんやと財布さいふ






Featured Kanji
(やすい・アン)
cheap

Vocabulary

  • — bookstore
  • — wallet
  • — station
  • — small
  • — to be (for people/animals); to be/exist
  • — cooking; cuisine
  • — book
  • — cheap
  • — very
  • — good
  • — to not be; there is not; do not have (polite negative of あります)
  • — house; home
  • — to leave; to go out
  • — before; in front of
  • — desk
  • — on top; above
  • — to put; to place
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — again
  • — to come
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — to say; to tell
  • — right away; immediately
  • — to return; to go home

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜まえに / 〜あとで follows a dictionary-form verb or noun + and means ‘before …’; follows a た-form verb or noun + and means ‘after …’. (“Before leaving the house, I put the wallet on the desk.”)
  • Linking adjectives (〜くて / 〜で) To describe something with two adjectives, an i-adjective drops and takes ( becomes ), and a na-adjective or noun takes ; only the last one carries . (“This cooking book is cheap and very good.”)

English

The Bookstore and the Wallet

I am at a small bookstore at the station.
This cooking book is cheap and very good.
But my wallet is missing.
Before leaving the house, I put the wallet on the desk.
I say to the shop staff, “Excuse me, I will come again.”
I will go back home right away.