夜の青いノート






Featured Kanji
(やつ・やっつ・よう・ハチ)
eight

Vocabulary

  • — night
  • — blue
  • — notebook
  • — Wednesday
  • — eight o’clock
  • — I; me
  • — department store
  • — stationery
  • — sales floor; section (in a store)
  • — to be (exists for people/animals)
  • — white
  • — to see; to look
  • — clerk; store staff
  • — which (of two)
  • — cheap; inexpensive
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — card (credit/debit card)
  • — to pay
  • — excuse me; I’m sorry
  • — store; shop
  • — to use
  • — thing; act of doing (nominalizer)
  • — cannot; is not possible
  • — but; however
  • — wallet
  • — money
  • — to have; to exist (for things)
  • — to buy

Grammar / Notes

  • て-form linking actions The て-form joins two actions in order: X、Y means ‘do X and then Y’. Only the last verb carries the tense and the politeness. (“I look at a white notebook and a blue notebook and ask a clerk, ‘Which one is cheaper?’”)
  • A は B より〜です A B 〜 compares two things: A is more … than B. marks the thing compared against. (“The clerk says, ‘The blue notebook is cheaper than the white notebook.’”)

English

The Blue Notebook at Night

At eight o’clock on Wednesday evening, I am in the stationery department of a department store.
I look at a white notebook and a blue notebook and ask a clerk, “Which one is cheaper?”
The clerk says, “The blue notebook is cheaper than the white notebook.”
I ask, “May I pay by card?”
The clerk says, “I am sorry, you cannot use a card at this store.”
But I have money in my wallet, so I buy the blue notebook.