バスとタクシー






Featured Kanji
(とも・ユウ)
friend

Vocabulary

  • — bus
  • — taxi
  • — now
  • — I
  • — Maria
  • — boarding area; stop (e.g., bus stop)
  • — to be (exists for people/animals)
  • — snow
  • — to fall (rain, snow)
  • — (not) at all
  • — to come
  • — cold
  • — to go home; to return
  • — we
  • — to call
  • — to hurry
  • — to ride; to get on
  • — warm
  • — fast; early
  • — high; expensive
  • — immediately; soon
  • — home; house
  • — to arrive

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ませんか / 〜ましょう invites someone to do something together (‘won’t you …?’); suggests it (‘let’s …’), and can suggest doing something together (‘shall we …?’) or offer to do something (‘shall I …?’). (“‘It is cold, so shall we go home by taxi?’”)
  • Sentence-final ね at the end of a sentence seeks agreement or shares a feeling with the listener, like ‘isn’t it?’ or ‘right?’. (“‘Taxis are warm and fast, aren’t they.’”)

English

The Bus and the Taxi

I am at the bus stop with Maria now.
It is snowing, but the bus is not coming at all.
”It is cold, so shall we go home by taxi?”
We called a taxi and hurriedly got in.
”Taxis are warm and fast, aren’t they.”
It was expensive, but we arrived home immediately.