小ちいさい時計とけい






Featured Kanji
(マイ)
every

Vocabulary

  • — small
  • — watch; clock
  • — every day
  • — use
  • — I; me
  • — light (in weight)
  • — want (a thing)
  • — Saturday
  • — department store
  • — buy
  • — go
  • — but
  • — shop; store
  • — all; everything
  • — big; large
  • — person
  • — other (one); another
  • — there is; have (inanimate things)
  • — ask; listen
  • — sorry; excuse me
  • — only this; just this
  • — say; tell
  • — cannot; be unable to do
  • — a little
  • — disappointing; regretful

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜がほしいです (want a thing) Noun + says that the speaker wants a thing. The thing wanted takes , not . (“Because I will use it every day, I want a small and light watch.”)
  • 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 . (“Because I will use it every day, I want a small and light watch.”)

English

A Small Watch

Because I will use it every day, I want a small and light watch.
On Saturday, I went to the department store to buy one.
But all the watches in the store were big.
I asked the store clerk, ‘Do you have other watches?‘
The store clerk said, ‘I am sorry, it is only these.‘
Because I could not buy one, I was a little disappointed.