机つくえの下したの紙かみ






Featured Kanji
(とき・ジ)
time

Vocabulary

  • — desk
  • — under; below
  • — paper
  • — Monday
  • — afternoon; p.m.
  • — I; me
  • — company; office
  • — to go
  • — inside
  • — quiet
  • — clean; pretty
  • — copy; photocopy
  • — to do
  • — time; when
  • — to not exist; there is not (polite negative)
  • — Mr./Ms. Tanaka
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — please give me; please
  • — to say
  • — to exist (for things); there is
  • — this
  • — please (go ahead); here you are
  • — that (near listener / previously mentioned)
  • — right away; immediately

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜とき (when) means ‘when …’ and sets the time of the main clause. It follows a plain-form verb or an i-adjective; a na-adjective takes , and a noun takes . (“When I went to make a copy, there was no paper.”)

English

The Paper Under the Desk

On Monday afternoon, I went to the office.
The inside of the office was quiet and clean.
When I went to make a copy, there was no paper.
I said to Mr. Tanaka, “Excuse me, please give me some paper.”
Mr. Tanaka said, “It is under the desk. Here you are.”
I made copies right away with that paper.