川かわの絵え






Featured Kanji
(かわ・セン)
river

Vocabulary

  • — river
  • — picture; drawing
  • — last week
  • — I; me
  • — to go
  • — to say
  • — beautiful; clean
  • — fish
  • — to hurry
  • — bag
  • — camera
  • — to take out
  • — but
  • — photo
  • — to take (a photo)
  • — cannot; not able to
  • — very
  • — fast
  • — disappointed; regrettable
  • — later
  • — to draw
  • — to show

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ことができます (can) Dictionary form + says that someone is able to do something, or that it is possible to do it. (“But I could not take a photo.”)
  • 〜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. (“Maria said, ‘Oh, there is a beautiful fish.’”)

English

The River Picture

Last week, I went to the river with Maria.
Maria said, “Oh, there is a beautiful fish.”
I hurriedly took my camera out of my bag.
But I could not take a photo.
The fish was very fast.
I was disappointed, but later I drew a picture of the fish and showed it to Maria.