二つのかばん






Featured Kanji
(うみ・カイ)
sea

Vocabulary

  • — two (things)
  • — bag
  • — tomorrow
  • — airplane
  • — Hokkaido
  • — to go
  • — today
  • — travel; trip
  • — to buy
  • — bag shop
  • — shop; store
  • — blue (adj.)
  • — white (adj.)
  • — to exist; there is/are (for things)
  • — alternative; the one (used in comparisons)
  • — like
  • — kilogram
  • — than (used for comparisons)
  • — light
  • — luggage; baggage
  • — a lot; many
  • — person
  • — to say

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜から (because) at the end of a clause gives the reason for what follows: ‘because A, B’. The reason clause comes first and may end in the polite form. (“‘Because I have a lot of luggage, please give me the blue bag,’ I said to the shop staff.”)
  • A は B より〜です A B 〜 compares two things: A is more … than B. marks the thing compared against. (“The blue bag was two kilograms, and it was lighter than the white bag.”)

English

Two Bags

Tomorrow I am going to Hokkaido by plane.
Today I went to a bag shop to buy a bag for my trip.
There was a blue bag and a white bag in the shop.
I liked the white bag better, but it was four kilograms.
The blue bag was two kilograms, and it was lighter than the white bag.
”Because I have a lot of luggage, please give me the blue bag,” I said to the shop staff.