図書館としょかんの眼鏡めがね






Featured Kanji
(さき・セン)
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Vocabulary

  • — library
  • — glasses
  • — last week
  • — I; me
  • — to study
  • — afternoon; p.m.
  • — seven o’clock
  • — around (approximate time)
  • — very
  • — to get tired
  • — to go home; to return
  • — time; when
  • — bag
  • — inside
  • — to look; to see
  • — to exist (inanimate); to be (there is)
  • — reception desk
  • — to go
  • — to lose (something)
  • — to say; to tell
  • — person
  • — head
  • — on; above; top
  • — really; truly

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 it was time to go home, I looked inside my bag, but my glasses were not there.”)

English

Glasses at the Library

Last week, I studied at the library.
Around seven in the evening, I was very tired.
When it was time to go home, I looked inside my bag, but my glasses were not there.
I went to the reception desk and said, “I lost my glasses.”
The receptionist said, “They are on your head.”
My glasses were really on my head.