象ぞうの写真しゃしん






Featured Kanji
(まつ・タイ)
wait

Vocabulary

  • — elephant
  • — photo; picture
  • — a day off; holiday
  • — I; me
  • — Tama Zoological Park
  • — went (polite past of 行いきます)
  • — big
  • — take (a photo); film
  • — but; however
  • — tree
  • — under; below
  • — sleep
  • — 30 minutes
  • — wait
  • — not at all (with a negative verb)
  • — wake up; get up
  • — next to; neighbor
  • — boy
  • — say; tell
  • — immediately; right away
  • — good

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜たいです (want to) attaches to the verb stem (the ます-form without ) to say what the speaker wants to do; the negative is . (“I wanted to take a picture of the big elephant.”)

English

A Picture of an Elephant

On my day off, I went to Tama Zoological Park.
I wanted to take a picture of the big elephant.
But the elephant was sleeping under a tree.
I waited for 30 minutes, but the elephant didn’t wake up at all.
The boy next to me said, “Ah, it woke up!”
I immediately took a good picture.