駅えきの二ふたつのお弁当べんとう






Featured Kanji
(エン)
yen

Vocabulary

  • — station
  • — two (things)
  • — bento (boxed lunch)
  • — Sunday
  • — morning
  • — I; me
  • — train
  • — to ride; to get on
  • — to go
  • — before; front
  • — shop; store
  • — one (thing)
  • — only; just
  • — to buy
  • — good
  • — to exist; to have (inanimate things)
  • — 400 yen
  • — about; approximately
  • — another; more
  • — 700 yen
  • — person
  • — which (of two)
  • — delicious; tasty
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — than (used for comparison)
  • — big; large
  • — to say
  • — two
  • — time; hour(s)
  • — to take (time/money)

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ぐらい / 〜くらい (about) or after an amount or a length of time means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’. (“One was about 400 yen, and the other was about 700 yen.”)
  • A は B より〜です A B 〜 compares two things: A is more … than B. marks the thing compared against. (“The shop clerk said, “Both are delicious, but the 700-yen bento is bigger than the 400-yen bento.””)
  • 〜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. (“Because it takes about two hours by train, I bought the bigger 700-yen bento.”)

English

Two Bentos at the Station

On Sunday morning, before getting on the train, I went to a shop at the station.
I wanted to buy only one bento, but there were two good ones.
One was about 400 yen, and the other was about 700 yen.
I asked the shop clerk, “Which one is tastier?”
The shop clerk said, “Both are delicious, but the 700-yen bento is bigger than the 400-yen bento.”
Because it takes about two hours by train, I bought the bigger 700-yen bento.