庭にわの写真しゃしん






Featured Kanji
(なか・チュウ)
middle

Vocabulary

  • — garden
  • — photo; picture
  • — Sunday
  • — afternoon; p.m.
  • — I; me
  • — to go
  • — beautiful; clean
  • — flower
  • — to take (a photo)
  • — intention; plan
  • — but; however
  • — bag
  • — inside; middle
  • — camera
  • — there is not; do not have (polite negative)
  • — tree
  • — under; below
  • — younger brother
  • — to hold; to have; to carry
  • — I’m sorry
  • — quietly; in a small voice
  • — to say
  • — together

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜つもりです (intend to) Dictionary form + states a plan or an intention: what someone means to do. (“I planned to take photos of beautiful flowers.”)
  • Adjectives as adverbs (〜く / 〜に) An adjective describes a verb by changing its ending: an i-adjective replaces with ( becomes ) and a na-adjective takes , as in and . (“My younger brother said ‘I’m sorry’ quietly.”)

English

Garden Photos

On Sunday afternoon, I went to the garden.
I planned to take photos of beautiful flowers.
But the camera was not in my bag.
Under a tree, my younger brother had my camera.
My younger brother said “I’m sorry” quietly.
We took photos of the flowers together.