美術館びじゅつかんの絵え






Featured Kanji
(や・オク)
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Vocabulary

  • — art museum
  • — painting; picture
  • — August
  • — hot (weather)
  • — day
  • — I; me
  • — Tokyo
  • — to go
  • — pretty; beautiful; clean
  • — to exist (inanimate); there is/are
  • — mobile phone; cell phone
  • — to take out
  • — person
  • — photo; picture
  • — to take (a photo)
  • — to say
  • — immediately; right away
  • — bag
  • — to put in; to insert
  • — over there (polite)
  • — room
  • — to tell; to teach

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ないでください (please don’t) attaches to the ない-form of a verb to ask someone politely not to do something. (“But a museum staff member said, ‘Please do not take pictures here.’”)
  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (“That person informed me, ‘You may take pictures in that room over there, you know.’”)

English

The Paintings in the Art Museum

On a hot day in August, I went to an art museum in Tokyo.
Because there was a beautiful painting, I took out my mobile phone.
But a museum staff member said, ‘Please do not take pictures here.‘
I immediately put my mobile phone in my bag.
That person informed me, ‘You may take pictures in that room over there, you know.‘
I said, ‘Thank you,’ and went to that room.