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Featured Kanji
(あるく・ホ)
walk

Vocabulary

  • — bench
  • — newspaper
  • — lunch
  • — after; later
  • — I; me
  • — park
  • — to take a walk
  • — leg; foot
  • — to get tired
  • — to sit
  • — man
  • — person
  • — next to; beside
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — to take; to pick up
  • — slowly; leisurely
  • — to rest

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てもいいです (may) attaches to the て-form and grants permission (‘you may …’); as a question, , it asks for it. (“I asked him, ‘May I sit here?’”)

English

The Newspaper on the Bench

After lunch, I was taking a walk in the park.
My legs got tired, so I wanted to sit on a bench.
A man was sitting on a bench. A newspaper was next to him.
I asked him, “May I sit here?”
He said, “I’m sorry,” and took the newspaper from the bench.
I sat down and relaxed.