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Featured Kanji
(ひと・ジン・ニン)
person

Vocabulary

  • — German (language)
  • — catalog
  • — Thursday
  • — night
  • — I; me
  • — department store
  • — camera
  • — to see; to look (at)
  • — to go
  • — foreign country; overseas
  • — Japanese (language)
  • — English (language)
  • — to understand
  • — to read
  • — can do; be able to
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — to say
  • — a little
  • — interesting; funny

Grammar / Notes

  • Past polite form ~ (did). Example:
  • Purpose pattern: Verb-stem + + / (go/come in order to do). Example:
  • Contrast/“but” with ~. Example:
  • Reason/cause with ~ (because). Example:
  • Nominalizing a verb with dictionary form + (turn a verb into a noun idea like “reading”). Example:
  • Ability with ~ (can do). Example:
  • Requesting/letting someone do something with ~ (had someone do something for me). Example:
  • Quoting with + (say “…”). Example:
  • Past negative polite form ~ (did not). Example:

English

The German Catalog

On Thursday night, I went to the department store to look at cameras.
There was a foreign camera catalog, but it wasn’t in Japanese.
Because I don’t understand English, I couldn’t read it.
Therefore, I had the store clerk read that catalog.
”Excuse me, this is German,” the store clerk said.
Because the store clerk didn’t understand either, it was a little amusing.