お弁当べんとうがない






Featured Kanji
(コウ)
school

Vocabulary

  • — lunch box
  • — I; me
  • — always
  • — morning
  • — make; prepare
  • — but; however
  • — today
  • — time
  • — not exist; there is no
  • — do not make
  • — company
  • — noon; daytime; lunchtime
  • — person
  • — rice ball
  • — two (things)
  • — one (thing)
  • — please (go ahead)
  • — say; tell
  • — that (near you/previously mentioned)
  • — big; large
  • — delicious
  • — thank you very much

Grammar / Notes

  • Frequency adverbs Adverbs such as , and say how often something happens and stand before the verb. goes with a negative verb and means ‘not much’. (“I always make a lunch box in the morning.”)
  • Linking adjectives (〜くて / 〜で) To describe something with two adjectives, an i-adjective drops and takes ( becomes ), and a na-adjective or noun takes ; only the last one carries . (“That rice ball was big and delicious.”)
  • 〜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. (“A colleague said, ‘I have two rice balls. Please have one.’”)

English

No Lunch Box

I always make a lunch box in the morning.
But today I didn’t have time, so I didn’t make one.
At the company, it became lunchtime.
A colleague said, ‘I have two rice balls. Please have one.‘
That rice ball was big and delicious.
I said, ‘Thank you very much.’