赤あかい自転車じてんしゃ






Featured Kanji
(いう・ゲン)
say

Vocabulary

  • — red
  • — bicycle
  • — Friday
  • — afternoon / p.m.
  • — I / me
  • — bicycle shop
  • — go
  • — buy
  • — a little
  • — expensive / high
  • — before / in front of
  • — ride
  • — shop / store
  • — person
  • — ask / listen
  • — slowly
  • — say
  • — outside
  • — five minutes
  • — light (not heavy)
  • — liked / favorite
  • — immediately
  • — money
  • — pay

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てもいいです (may) attaches to the て-form and grants permission (‘you may …’); as a question, , it asks for it. (“Therefore, I asked the shop staff, ‘Before buying, may I ride this?’”)
  • Sentence-final ね at the end of a sentence seeks agreement or shares a feeling with the listener, like ‘isn’t it?’ or ‘right?’. (“The shop staff said, ‘Sure. But please ride slowly, okay?’”)

English

The Red Bicycle

On Friday afternoon, I went to a bicycle shop.
I wanted to buy a red bicycle, but it was a little expensive.
Therefore, I asked the shop staff, “Before buying, may I ride this?”
The shop staff said, “Sure. But please ride slowly, okay?”
I rode it outside for about five minutes.
Because that bicycle was very light and I came to like it, I paid the money immediately.