高い晩ごはん






Featured Kanji
(とも・ユウ)
friend

Vocabulary

  • — expensive; high
  • — dinner
  • — Tuesday
  • — night; evening
  • — I; me
  • — Maria (polite name with さん)
  • — restaurant
  • — to eat
  • — delicious
  • — tuna
  • — sashimi
  • — very
  • — to say
  • — then; after that
  • — cash register; checkout
  • — to go
  • — bag
  • — inside
  • — wallet
  • — so; therefore
  • — money
  • — to borrow
  • — Wednesday
  • — to return (something); to pay back

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜から (because) at the end of a clause gives the reason for what follows: ‘because A, B’. The reason clause comes first and may end in the polite form. (“We ate delicious maguro sashimi, so the dinner was very expensive.”)
  • Sentence-final ね at the end of a sentence seeks agreement or shares a feeling with the listener, like ‘isn’t it?’ or ‘right?’. (“Maria said, ‘It was expensive, but it was delicious, wasn’t it.’”)

English

Expensive Dinner

On Tuesday night, I ate dinner at a restaurant with Maria.
We ate delicious maguro sashimi, so the dinner was very expensive.
Maria said, “It was expensive, but it was delicious, wasn’t it.”
Then, I went to the register, but my wallet was not in my bag.
So, I borrowed money from Maria.
On Wednesday, I returned that money.