誕生日たんじょうびの箱はこ






Featured Kanji
(しろ・しろい・ハク)
white

Vocabulary

  • — birthday
  • — box
  • — yesterday
  • — younger brother
  • — school
  • — to go home; to return
  • — room
  • — desk
  • — on top; above
  • — white
  • — present; gift
  • — to see; to look
  • — right away; immediately
  • — mother
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to open
  • — not yet; still
  • — six o’clock
  • — party
  • — until; up to
  • — all the time; continuously

Grammar / Notes

  • もう / まだ with a past verb means ‘already’. with a negative verb means ‘not yet’, and with a positive verb ‘still’. (“‘Can I open it already?’”)
  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (“‘No, not yet.’”)

English

The Birthday Box

Yesterday was my younger brother’s birthday.
When my younger brother came home from school, there was a white present box on the desk in the room.
He saw it and immediately asked our mother.
”Can I open it already?"
"No, not yet.”
My younger brother stared at the box the whole time until the 6 o’clock party.