喫茶店きっさてんのケーキ






Featured Kanji
(みず・スイ)
water

Vocabulary

  • — coffee shop
  • — cake
  • — Wednesday
  • — I; me
  • — to go
  • — to eat
  • — money
  • — 500 yen
  • — about; approximately
  • — a little
  • — to worry
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — the most
  • — cheap
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — 300 yen
  • — banana
  • — to say
  • — to buy
  • — very
  • — delicious

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ぐらい / 〜くらい (about) or after an amount or a length of time means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’. (“I wanted to eat a cake, but I only had about 500 yen.”)
  • Linking adjectives (〜くて / 〜で) To describe something with two adjectives, an i-adjective drops and takes ( becomes ), and a na-adjective or noun takes ; only the last one carries . (“It was cheap, and very delicious.”)

English

The Coffee Shop Cake

On Wednesday, I went to a coffee shop.
I wanted to eat a cake, but I only had about 500 yen.
Because I was a little worried, I asked the shop staff, ‘Which cake is the cheapest?‘
The shop staff said, ‘It is this 300-yen banana cake.‘
I bought it.
It was cheap, and very delicious.