ホテルの鍵かぎ






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(きく・ブン)
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Vocabulary

  • — hotel
  • — key
  • — this morning
  • — I; me
  • — family
  • — restaurant
  • — breakfast
  • — to eat
  • — table
  • — room
  • — two (things)
  • — to exist (inanimate); there is/are
  • — same
  • — to understand; to know
  • — older brother (my older brother)
  • — which (of two)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — coffee
  • — side; next to
  • — bread
  • — to say
  • — to take; to pick up
  • — to return; to go home

Grammar / Notes

  • て-form linking actions The て-form joins two actions in order: X、Y means ‘do X and then Y’. Only the last verb carries the tense and the politeness. (“I picked up that key and returned to the room.”)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (“I asked my older brother, ‘Which one is my key?’”)

English

The Hotel Key

This morning, I ate breakfast at the hotel restaurant with my family.
There were two room keys on the table.
Because the two keys were the same, I did not know which was my key.
I asked my older brother, “Which one is my key?”
My older brother said, “It is the key next to the coffee. My key is next to the bread.”
I picked up that key and returned to the room.