箱はこの中なかの青あおいシャツ






Featured Kanji
(フク)
clothes

Vocabulary

  • — box
  • — inside
  • — blue
  • — shirt
  • — next week
  • — I; me
  • — sea; ocean
  • — to go
  • — today
  • — town
  • — shop; store
  • — clothes
  • — to buy
  • — shelf
  • — red
  • — many; a lot
  • — to be (inanimate things); to exist
  • — person
  • — want (a thing)
  • — to say; to tell
  • — big; large
  • — pretty; clean
  • — to take out
  • — home; my house
  • — to return; to go home

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜がほしいです (want a thing) Noun + says that the speaker wants a thing. The thing wanted takes , not . (“I said to the shop staff, ‘I want a blue shirt.’”)
  • 〜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 shop staff, ‘I want a blue shirt.’”)

English

The Blue Shirt in the Box

Next week, I will go to the sea.
So, today I went to a shop in town to buy clothes.
There were many red shirts on the shelf, but there were no blue shirts.
I said to the shop staff, “I want a blue shirt.”
The shop staff took out a pretty blue shirt from a large box.
I bought that shirt and returned home.