朝あさのバス






Featured Kanji
(エキ)
station

Vocabulary

  • — morning
  • — bus
  • — weekend
  • — I; me
  • — countryside; rural area
  • — town
  • — to go
  • — station
  • — 10 minutes
  • — before; in front of
  • — to leave; to go out
  • — nearby
  • — man
  • — person
  • — next
  • — what time
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to come
  • — to say
  • — and then
  • — car
  • — to take (someone somewhere)
  • — inside
  • — a lot; many
  • — to talk; to speak
  • — fun; enjoyable

Grammar / Notes

  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (“The man said, ‘This bus only comes in the morning, you know.’”)
  • 〜まえに / 〜あとで follows a dictionary-form verb or noun + and means ‘before …’; follows a た-form verb or noun + and means ‘after …’. (“I wanted to go to the station by bus, but the bus left 10 minutes ago.”)

English

The Morning Bus

On the weekend, I visited a rural town.
I wanted to go to the station by bus, but the bus left 10 minutes ago.
I asked a nearby man, ‘What time is the next bus?‘
The man said, ‘This bus only comes in the morning, you know.‘
And then, that person took me to the station by car.
Because we talked a lot in the car, I had a lot of fun.