本屋ほんやの辞書じしょ






Featured Kanji
(ひと・ジン・ニン)
person

Vocabulary

  • — bookstore
  • — dictionary
  • — now
  • — I; me
  • — town
  • — Japanese (language)
  • — want (something) (い-adjective)
  • — many; a lot
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — which (one)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to buy
  • — before; in front
  • — inside; contents
  • — to see; to look
  • — to say; to tell
  • — three (bound volumes); three books
  • — about; approximately
  • — and then
  • — good
  • — to think

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜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 …’. (“The store person said, ‘Please look inside before buying.’”)
  • 〜と言いいます (say that) reports what someone says, and marks the reported content. An indirectly reported clause normally takes the plain form. A direct quotation in keeps the speaker’s original wording. (“I looked at about three dictionaries.”)
  • 〜と思おもいます (I think) expresses an opinion or belief. The clause before takes the plain form. In the affirmative non-past, nouns and na-adjectives normally take before . (“And then, I bought the dictionary I thought was good.”)

English

The Bookstore’s Dictionary

I am at the town bookstore now.
I want a Japanese dictionary, but there are many.
I asked the store person, “Which one is good?”
The store person said, “Please look inside before buying.”
I looked at about three dictionaries.
And then, I bought the dictionary I thought was good.