試験しけんの鉛筆えんぴつ






Featured Kanji
(おや・シン)
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Vocabulary

  • — test; exam
  • — pencil
  • — yesterday
  • — classroom
  • — to exist (inanimate); to have
  • — time; when
  • — always; usually
  • — to use
  • — I; me
  • — next to; neighboring
  • — student
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — here you go; please
  • — to say
  • — new
  • — to give (to me/us)
  • — very
  • — kind
  • — person

Grammar / Notes

  • Frequency adverbs Adverbs such as , and say how often something happens and stand before the verb. goes with a negative verb and means ‘not much’. (“During tests, I always use a pencil.”)
  • 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 student said, ‘Here you go,’ and gave me a new pencil.”)

English

The Pencil for the Test

Yesterday, there was a test in the classroom.
During tests, I always use a pencil.
But, I did not have a pencil.
I asked the student next to me, ‘Do you have a pencil?‘
The student said, ‘Here you go,’ and gave me a new pencil.
That student is a very kind person.