祖母そぼのりんご






Featured Kanji
(いもうと・マイ)
younger sister

Vocabulary

  • — grandmother
  • — apple
  • — garden
  • — fruit
  • — tree
  • — many; a lot
  • — various
  • — there is/are (inanimate)
  • — sweet
  • — today
  • — I; me
  • — to receive
  • — big
  • — one (counter for things)
  • — very
  • — one person; alone
  • — all; everything
  • — to eat
  • — can; to be able to
  • — knife
  • — two (counter for things)
  • — to cut
  • — together
  • — younger sister
  • — to say

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜が (but) between two clauses means ‘but’ and joins two contrasting ideas into one sentence. The first clause usually ends in the polite form. (“There are various fruits, but the apples are the sweetest.”)
  • いちばん (the most) before an adjective marks the highest degree (‘the most …’); the group compared is often given with . (“There are various fruits, but the apples are the sweetest.”)

English

Grandmother’s Apple

There are many fruit trees in my grandmother’s garden.
There are various fruits, but the apples are the sweetest.
Today, I received one big apple from my grandmother.
Because it is very big, I cannot eat it all by myself.
I cut the apple into two with a knife.
”Let’s eat it together,” I said to my younger sister.