新幹線しんかんせんの席せき






Featured Kanji
(おとこ・ダン・ナン)
man

Vocabulary

  • — bullet train
  • — seat
  • — winter vacation
  • — I; me
  • — alone; by oneself
  • — Kyoto
  • — to go
  • — before; earlier
  • — inside
  • — to understand; to know
  • — man; male
  • — person
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — over there
  • — to sit

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜たことがあります (have done) attaches to the た-form and says that someone has had the experience of doing something at least once. (“I have been to Kyoto before.”)

English

The Bullet Train Seat

During winter vacation, I went to Kyoto by myself.
I have been to Kyoto before.
But inside the bullet train, I couldn’t figure out my seat.
I asked a man, ‘Excuse me, where is seat 7A?‘
That person said, ‘It is over there.‘
I said ‘Thank you’ and sat in the seat.