赤あかと白しろの花はな






Featured Kanji
(あかい・あか・セキ)
red

Vocabulary

  • — red
  • — white
  • — flower
  • — tomorrow
  • — mother
  • — birthday
  • — I; me
  • — to give (to someone)
  • — plan to; intend to
  • — evening
  • — flower shop
  • — to buy
  • — to go
  • — nine (long cylindrical items; e.g., flowers)
  • — shop; store
  • — five (long cylindrical items; e.g., flowers)
  • — only; just
  • — person
  • — to say
  • — very
  • — pretty; beautiful; clean

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜つもりです (intend to) Dictionary form + states a plan or an intention: what someone means to do. (“I plan to give flowers to my mother.”)
  • 〜だけ and counters after a noun or a counter means ‘only’. A counter such as , or gives a number of things and usually stands right before the verb. (“I wanted to buy 9 flowers, but the shop only had 5 red flowers.”)

English

Red and White Flowers

Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday.
I plan to give flowers to my mother.
In the evening, I went to a flower shop to buy red flowers.
I wanted to buy 9 flowers, but the shop only had 5 red flowers.
”Well then, please give me 4 white flowers too,” I said to the shop staff.
The red and white flowers are very pretty.