公園こうえんのパン






Featured Kanji
(ひと・ジン・ニン)
person

Vocabulary

  • — park
  • — bread
  • — Sunday
  • — noon; daytime
  • — I; me
  • — eat
  • — today
  • — buy
  • — cheese bread
  • — inside
  • — there is not; do not have (polite negative)
  • — nearby
  • — bakery; bread shop
  • — return; go back
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — excuse me; I’m sorry
  • — see; look
  • — say
  • — new
  • — please; here you go
  • — a lot; many
  • — enter; be inside (something)
  • — very
  • — delicious; tasty

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てください (please do) attaches to the て-form of a verb to make a polite request or give a polite instruction. (“I went back to the nearby bakery and said to the staff, “Excuse me, please look at this bread.””)
  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (“The new bread had lots of cheese inside, so it was very delicious!”)
  • 〜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 new bread had lots of cheese inside, so it was very delicious!”)

English

Bread in the Park

On Sunday at noon, I ate bread in the park.
It was cheese bread that I had bought that day.
But there was no cheese inside the bread.
I went back to the nearby bakery and said to the staff, “Excuse me, please look at this bread.”
The staff said, “Oh, I’m sorry. Here is a new one.”
The new bread had lots of cheese inside, so it was very delicious!