大おおきいケーキ






Featured Kanji
(き・モク)
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Vocabulary

  • — big; large
  • — cake
  • — Thursday
  • — afternoon; p.m.
  • — coffee shop; cafe
  • — to go
  • — lunch
  • — to eat
  • — menu
  • — matcha; green tea
  • — banana
  • — to exist (inanimate); to have
  • — photo; picture
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — which (of two)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — alternative; side (used in comparisons)
  • — to say
  • — I; me
  • — delicious; tasty

Grammar / Notes

  • Polite past (〜ました / 〜でした) The polite past describes an action or state in the past. For verbs, replace with ; for nouns and na-adjectives, replace with . (“On Thursday afternoon, I went to a coffee shop.”)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (“Since there were no photos, I asked the shop staff, ‘Which one is bigger?’”)

English

The Big Cake

On Thursday afternoon, I went to a coffee shop.
Since I didn’t eat lunch, I wanted to eat a big cake.
There was a matcha cake and a banana cake on the menu.
Since there were no photos, I asked the shop staff, “Which one is bigger?”
The shop staff said, “The banana cake is bigger.”
I ate the banana cake, and it was delicious.