動物園どうぶつえんのりんご






Featured Kanji
(ちち・フ)
father

Vocabulary

  • — zoo
  • — apple
  • — now
  • — daughter
  • — two people
  • — big
  • — elephant
  • — to see; to look (at)
  • — one (thing)
  • — to hold; to have; to carry
  • — dad; father
  • — to give
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — here
  • — animal
  • — food
  • — to say
  • — got it; understood
  • — bag
  • — to put in; to insert

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てはいけません (must not) attaches to the て-form and forbids an action: ‘you must not …’. (“Mr. Tanaka said, ‘You must not give food to the animals here.’”)
  • 〜てもいいです (may) attaches to the て-form and grants permission (‘you may …’); as a question, , it asks for it. (“Aoi asked, ‘Dad, may I give the elephant an apple?’”)
  • 〜ています (in progress) attaches to the て-form and describes an action that is going on right now, like the English ‘-ing’ form. (“The two of them are looking at a big elephant.”)

English

An Apple at the Zoo

Right now, Mr. Tanaka is at the zoo with his daughter, Aoi.
The two of them are looking at a big elephant.
Aoi is holding one apple.
Aoi asked, ‘Dad, may I give the elephant an apple?‘
Mr. Tanaka said, ‘You must not give food to the animals here.‘
Aoi said, ‘Okay,’ and put the apple in her bag.