朝あさ五時半ごじはんのバス停てい






Featured Kanji
(わける・わかれる・ブン・フン)
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Vocabulary

  • — morning
  • — 5:30
  • — bus stop
  • — I; me
  • — town
  • — person; people
  • — five people
  • — about; around (approximation)
  • — to stand
  • — university
  • — to go
  • — number
  • — to understand; to know
  • — nearby
  • — red
  • — hat
  • — man; male
  • — what number
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — number two
  • — happy; glad

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜ぐらい / 〜くらい (about) or after an amount or a length of time means ‘about’ or ‘approximately’. (“About five people are standing at the bus stop.”)
  • 〜ています (state) With some verbs such as , or , describes an ongoing state rather than an action in progress. (“About five people are standing at the bus stop.”)

English

The Bus Stop at 5:30 a.m.

At 5:30 in the morning, I am at a bus stop in town.
About five people are standing at the bus stop.
I do not know the number of the bus that goes to the university.
I ask a nearby man in a red hat, “What number is the bus to the university?”
The man says, “Number two.”
I am happy to know the number.