おいしい魚さかな






Featured Kanji
(さかな・ギョ)
fish

Vocabulary

  • — delicious
  • — fish
  • — today
  • — afternoon (p.m.)
  • — I; me
  • — supermarket
  • — to buy
  • — to go
  • — big; large
  • — small; little
  • — to be; to exist (inanimate things)
  • — store; shop
  • — person
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — which (of two choices)
  • — then; well then
  • — that
  • — to cut

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. (““Then, please cut that big fish for me.””)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (““Which one is more delicious?””)
  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (““The big fish is more delicious.””)

English

Delicious Fish

This afternoon, I went to the supermarket to buy fish.
There were big fish and small fish.
I asked the store clerk.
“Which one is more delicious?”
“The big fish is more delicious.”
“Then, please cut that big fish for me.”