喫茶店きっさてんのボールペン






Featured Kanji
(わける・わかれる・ブン・フン)
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Vocabulary

  • — coffee shop
  • — ballpoint pen
  • — afternoon
  • — I; me
  • — coffee
  • — to drink
  • — notebook; planner
  • — schedule; plan
  • — to write
  • — next to; neighboring
  • — woman (person)
  • — to lend
  • — to say
  • — blue
  • — to give (to me/us)
  • — five minutes
  • — to use
  • — to return (something)
  • — kind
  • — very

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ぐらい / 〜くらい (about) or after an amount or a length of time means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’. (“After using it for about five minutes, I returned it to the woman.”)
  • あげます / もらいます / くれます means to give something to someone else, means to receive something from someone, and means that someone gives something to me or my side. With , the recipient takes ; with , the source can take or . (“The woman gave me a blue ballpoint pen.”)

English

The Coffee Shop’s Ballpoint Pen

In the afternoon, I was drinking coffee at a coffee shop.
I wanted to write my schedule in my notebook, but I didn’t have a ballpoint pen.
I said to the woman next to me, “Excuse me, please lend me a pen.”
The woman gave me a blue ballpoint pen.
After using it for about five minutes, I returned it to the woman.
That person was very kind.