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

  • Contrast with : Use to contrast two ideas, often like “but/although.” Example: Here, the first part says there are various fruits, and introduces the contrast that apples are the sweetest.
  • Superlative with : + adjective means “the most …” among a group. Example: = “Apples are the sweetest (the most sweet).”

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.