小ちいさい箱はこがない





Featured Kanji
(ふるい・コ)
old

Vocabulary

  • — small
  • — box
  • — Thursday
  • — I; me
  • — younger sister
  • — camera
  • — to send
  • — post office
  • — to go
  • — to put in; to insert
  • — house; home
  • — to forget
  • — person
  • — to sell
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — old
  • — to exist (inanimate); there is
  • — to give
  • — to buy
  • — to say

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜なくてもいいです (need not) replaces the of the ない-form and means ‘do not have to’: the action is not necessary. (“The worker said, “There is an old box here. I will give you this, so you do not have to buy one.””)
  • Polite past (〜ました / 〜でした) The polite past describes an action or state in the past. For verbs, replace with ; for nouns and na-adjectives, replace with . (“On Thursday, I went to the post office to send a camera to my little sister.”)

English

No Small Box

On Thursday, I went to the post office to send a camera to my little sister.
But I had forgotten the small box for the camera at home.
I asked a postal worker, “Do you sell small boxes?”
The worker said, “There is an old box here. I will give you this, so you do not have to buy one.”
I put the camera in that box and sent it to my sister.