駅えきで財布さいふをなくした話はなし





Featured Kanji
(はなす・ワ)
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Vocabulary

  • — station
  • — wallet
  • — story; talk
  • — this morning
  • — to forget
  • — station staff member
  • — to find
  • — right away; immediately
  • — to go
  • — to say
  • — to return (something)
  • — to give (to me/us); to do (something) for me
  • — home; house
  • — money
  • — to count
  • — to feel relieved

Grammar / Notes

  • て-form linking actions The て-form joins two actions in order: X、Y means ‘do X and then Y’. Only the last verb carries the tense and the politeness. (“I quickly went to the station and said, ‘Thank you.’”)
  • 〜てあげます / 〜てもらいます / 〜てくれます After a て-form, , and mark an action done as a favour: doing it for someone, having it done for you, or someone doing it for me. (“But a station staff member found it.”)

English

The Wallet Lost at the Station

This morning, I forgot my wallet at the station.
But a station staff member found it.
I quickly went to the station and said, “Thank you.”
The station staff member said, “It’s okay,” and returned the wallet.
After that, at home I counted the money and felt relieved.