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喫茶店きっさてんのカード






Featured Kanji
(かね・キン)
money

Vocabulary

  • — coffee shop
  • — card (credit/debit card)
  • — yesterday
  • — night; evening
  • — I; me
  • — new
  • — enter; go in
  • — coffee
  • — drink
  • — bag
  • — inside
  • — look; see
  • — but
  • — money
  • — (not) at all (used with negatives)
  • — there is; have (non-living things)
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — pay
  • — can do; be able to
  • — ask; listen
  • — yes
  • — okay; all right
  • — say
  • — home; house
  • — go home; return

Grammar / Notes

  • Ability with / : Use to say you can do something. Example from the story: Here, means “can pay” (literally “it is possible to do paying”).
  • Sentence-ending : is used to tell the listener new information or to emphasize what you are saying. Example from the story: Here, adds a friendly, assuring emphasis: “It’s okay, you know.”

English

Card at the Coffee Shop

Yesterday night, I entered a new coffee shop.
After drinking coffee, I looked inside my bag.
But, there was no money at all.
I asked the shop staff, ‘Excuse me, can I pay by card?‘
The shop staff said, ‘Yes, it’s okay.‘
I paid the money by card and went home.