会社かいしゃの封筒ふうとう






Featured Kanji
(な・メイ・ミョウ)
name

Vocabulary

  • — company
  • — envelope
  • — today
  • — meeting
  • — to exist (inanimate); to have
  • — I; me
  • — Mr./Ms. Tanaka
  • — to receive
  • — black
  • — pen
  • — to not exist; to not have
  • — red
  • — ballpoint pen
  • — address
  • — to write
  • — to say
  • — sorry; excuse me
  • — and then
  • — new

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜てはいけません (must not) attaches to the て-form and forbids an action: ‘you must not …’. (“Mr. Tanaka said, ‘You must not write the address with a red pen.’”)
  • あげます / もらいます / くれます means to give something to someone else, means to receive something from someone, and means that someone gives something to me or my side. With , the recipient takes ; with , the source can take or . (“I received a company envelope from Mr. Tanaka.”)

English

The Company Envelope

Today, there was a meeting at the company.
I received a company envelope from Mr. Tanaka.
Since I didn’t have a black pen, I wrote the address with a red ballpoint pen.
Mr. Tanaka said, “You must not write the address with a red pen.”
I said, “I’m sorry.”
Then, I received a new envelope and a black pen from Mr. Tanaka, and wrote the address.