会議かいぎの椅子いす






Featured Kanji
(やま・サン)
mountain

Vocabulary

  • — meeting
  • — chair
  • — 3 o’clock
  • — room
  • — do; hold (a meeting)
  • — person; people
  • — five people
  • — come
  • — three (things)
  • — I
  • — serious; terrible; tough
  • — think
  • — Mr./Ms. Yamada
  • — few; not much
  • — say; tell
  • — and; then
  • — next (to); neighboring
  • — two (things)
  • — bring (carry and come)
  • — ask; hear
  • — yes
  • — together
  • — go

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ませんか / 〜ましょう invites someone to do something together (‘won’t you …?’); suggests it (‘let’s …’), and can suggest doing something together (‘shall we …?’) or offer to do something (‘shall I …?’). (“And I asked, ‘Shall we bring two from the next room?’”)
  • Sentence-final ね at the end of a sentence seeks agreement or shares a feeling with the listener, like ‘isn’t it?’ or ‘right?’. (“I said to Mr. Yamada, ‘There are few chairs, aren’t there.’”)

English

Chairs for the Meeting

From 3 o’clock, we will have a meeting in this room.
Five people are coming, but there are only three chairs.
I thought, “Ah, oh no.”
I said to Mr. Yamada, “There are few chairs, aren’t there.”
And I asked, “Shall we bring two from the next room?”
Mr. Yamada said, “Yes, let’s go together.”