スーパーのみかん






Featured Kanji
(いろ・ショク)
color

Vocabulary

  • — supermarket
  • — mikan (mandarin orange)
  • — yesterday
  • — to buy
  • — to go
  • — shop; store
  • — orange color
  • — green
  • — my mother
  • — sweet
  • — to like
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — person
  • — very
  • — to say
  • — three (things)

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜がすきです / きらいです Noun + means ‘like’ and noun + ‘dislike’. The thing liked takes , because and are na-adjectives, not verbs. (“Because my mother likes sweet mikan, I wanted to buy sweet ones.”)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (“I asked the shopkeeper, ‘Which one is sweet?’”)

English

Supermarket Mikan

Yesterday, I went to the supermarket to buy mikan.
There were orange and green mikan in the store.
Because my mother likes sweet mikan, I wanted to buy sweet ones.
I asked the shopkeeper, “Which one is sweet?”
The shopkeeper said, “The green mikan are very sweet.”
So, I bought three green mikan.