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夜よるの図書館としょかん






Featured Kanji
(そと・ほか・ガイ・ゲ)
outside

Vocabulary

  • — night; evening
  • — library
  • — seven o’clock
  • — I; me
  • — travel; trip
  • — book
  • — to read
  • — next to; neighbor
  • — man
  • — person
  • — big; loud (voice)
  • — voice
  • — phone; telephone call
  • — to make (a phone call)
  • — cannot; be unable to do
  • — to say; to tell
  • — please (request)
  • — sorry; excuse me
  • — to stop; to quit
  • — one more time; again
  • — please; I ask (you)
  • — then; after that
  • — outside
  • — to go
  • — quiet
  • — to become
  • — again

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ないでください (please don’t) attaches to the ない-form of a verb to ask someone politely not to do something. (“I say to the man, ‘Please do not make phone calls here.’”)
  • 〜と言いいます (say that) reports what someone says, and marks the reported content. An indirectly reported clause normally takes the plain form. A direct quotation in keeps the speaker’s original wording. (“I say to the man, ‘Please do not make phone calls here.’”)
  • 〜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. (“The library became quiet, so I read my travel book again.”)

English

The Library at Night

At seven in the evening, I am reading a travel book at the library.
The man next to me is talking loudly on the phone, so I cannot read my book.
I say to the man, “Please do not make phone calls here.”
The man says, “I’m sorry,” but he does not stop his phone call.
I said “Please” once more. Then the man went outside the library.
The library became quiet, so I read my travel book again.