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Featured Kanji
(ひ・か・にち・ニチ)
day

Vocabulary

  • — chopsticks
  • — to be; to exist; to have
  • — yesterday
  • — friend
  • — Kyoto
  • — older brother
  • — house; home
  • — to go
  • — Shinkansen (bullet train)
  • — inside
  • — bento; boxed lunch
  • — to open
  • — but
  • — to eat
  • — time; when
  • — I; me
  • — to hold; to have
  • — to ask
  • — and then
  • — new
  • — to receive (from someone)
  • — always
  • — was glad; relieved

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜とき (when) means ‘when …’ and sets the time of the main clause. It follows a plain-form verb or an i-adjective; a na-adjective takes , and a noun takes . (“But when I was about to eat, I did not have any chopsticks.”)
  • あげます / もらいます / くれます means to give something to someone else, means to receive something from someone, and means that someone gives something to me or my side. With , the recipient takes ; with , the source can take or . (“And then, I received new chopsticks from my friend.”)

English

No Chopsticks

Yesterday, I went to my older brother’s house in Kyoto with a friend.
I opened a bento inside the Shinkansen.
But when I was about to eat, I did not have any chopsticks.
I asked my friend, “Do you have chopsticks?”
And then, I received new chopsticks from my friend.
My friend always has chopsticks, so I was glad.