駅えきの猫ねこ






Featured Kanji
(うしろ・あと・ゴ・コウ)
after

Vocabulary

  • — station
  • — cat
  • — yesterday
  • — afternoon (PM)
  • — I; me
  • — train
  • — to wait
  • — bench
  • — to sit (down)
  • — white
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — quietly
  • — over there (polite)
  • — to go
  • — to say

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, ‘May I sit here?’”)
  • Adjectives as adverbs (〜く / 〜に) An adjective describes a verb by changing its ending: an i-adjective replaces with ( becomes ) and a na-adjective takes , as in and . (“The cat went over there quietly.”)

English

The Station Cat

Yesterday afternoon, I waited for the train at the station.
I wanted to sit on the bench.
But there was a white cat on the bench.
I asked, “May I sit here?”
The cat went over there quietly.
I said “Thank you” and sat down.