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本屋ほんや辞書じしょ






Featured Kanji
(ひと・ジン・ニン)
person

Vocabulary

  • — bookstore
  • — dictionary
  • — now
  • — I; me
  • — town
  • — Japanese (language)
  • — want (something) (い-adjective)
  • — many; a lot
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — which (one)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to buy
  • — before; in front
  • — inside; contents
  • — to see; to look
  • — to say; to tell
  • — three (bound volumes); three books
  • — about; approximately
  • — and then
  • — good
  • — to think

Grammar / Notes

  • Verb dictionary form + = “before doing”. Example from the story: . Here, means “before (I) buy (it)” and comes before the action (please look).
  • describes “the noun that (someone) thought was good.” Here, means “the dictionary I thought was good.” The verb is past form modifying the noun directly.
  • is the counter for bound volumes (books, notebooks, dictionaries): (1), (2), (3). In this story, means “I looked at about three (books/dictionaries).”

English

The Bookstore’s Dictionary

I am at the town bookstore now.
I want a Japanese dictionary, but there are many.
I asked the store person, “Which one is good?”
The store person said, “Please look inside before buying.”
I looked at about three dictionaries.
And then, I bought the dictionary I thought was good.