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まった時計とけい






Featured Kanji
(はしる・ソウ)
run

Vocabulary

  • — to stop
  • — watch; clock
  • — work; job
  • — to go
  • — before; in front of
  • — I; me
  • — park
  • — bench
  • — to sit (down)
  • — newspaper
  • — to read
  • — nine o’clock
  • — now
  • — true; real
  • — time
  • — to understand; to know
  • — near; nearby
  • — person
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — what time
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — 9:30
  • — to answer
  • — to hurry
  • — company; office
  • — to run

Grammar / Notes

  • Use the dictionary form of a verb plus to say that one action happens before another. Here, sitting on the park bench and reading happen before going to work: (Before going to work, I am sitting on a park bench and reading a newspaper.)
  • Use the te-form of a verb plus to describe a state that continues after an action is completed. Here, means that the watch stopped and is still stopped: (Huh, my watch is stopped at nine o’clock.)

English

The Stopped Watch

Before going to work, I am sitting on a park bench and reading a newspaper.
Huh, my watch is stopped at nine o’clock.
I do not know the real current time.
I ask a person nearby, “Excuse me, what time is it now?”
That person answers, “It is already 9:30.”
Because it is already time for work, I hurriedly run to the office.