靴くつが一ひとつ






Featured Kanji
(みぎ・ウ)
right

Vocabulary

  • — shoe
  • — one (thing)
  • — Sunday
  • — morning
  • — I; me
  • — entrance (genkan)
  • — to go
  • — right (side)
  • — there is not; do not have (polite negative)
  • — left (side)
  • — younger sister
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — garden
  • — there is; to have (for non-living things)
  • — dog
  • — to take; to carry (and go)
  • — to answer
  • — liked; favorite
  • — to think

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜と思おもいます (I think) expresses an opinion or belief. The clause before takes the plain form. In the affirmative non-past, nouns and na-adjectives normally take before . (“I think that dog likes my shoes.”)

English

Only One Shoe

On Sunday morning, I went to the entrance.
But the right shoe was missing.
Only the left shoe was there.
I asked my younger sister, “Where is my right shoe?”
My sister answered, “Oh, it’s in the garden. The dog carried it there.”
I think that dog likes my shoes.