大切たいせつな時計とけい






Featured Kanji
(ちち・フ)
father

Vocabulary

  • — important; precious
  • — watch; clock
  • — Wednesday
  • — I; me
  • — gymnasium
  • — car
  • — home; my house
  • — to return (home)
  • — front; before
  • — to get off; to get out (of a vehicle)
  • — time; when
  • — (my) father
  • — to receive
  • — there is not; do not have
  • — very
  • — worry; anxiety
  • — pocket
  • — inside; middle
  • — to see; to look
  • — but; however
  • — bag
  • — to say
  • — (my) mother
  • — slowly; leisurely
  • — dinner
  • — to eat

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 was very worried and looked inside my pocket.”)

English

The Important Watch

On Wednesday, I returned home from the gym by car.
When I got out of the car in front of my house, the important watch I received from my father was missing.
I was very worried and looked inside my pocket.
But it was not in my pocket, so I looked inside my bag.
Because the watch was inside the bag, I said, “Ah, thank goodness!”
And then, I had a leisurely dinner with my mother.