駅えきのチョコレート






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electricity

Vocabulary

  • — station
  • — chocolate
  • — Thursday
  • — evening
  • — I; me
  • — shop
  • — to buy
  • — younger sister
  • — birthday
  • — present; gift
  • — train
  • — inside
  • — to see; to look
  • — time; when
  • — bag
  • — to forget
  • — next
  • — to get off (a train, bus, etc.)
  • — station attendant
  • — to be open (a shop, etc.)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — already
  • — to close; to be closed
  • — to say
  • — one more; another one
  • — home; house
  • — to give (to someone else; from the speaker’s side)

Grammar / Notes

  • もう / まだ with a past verb means ‘already’. with a negative verb means ‘not yet’, and with a positive verb ‘still’. (“The station attendant said, ‘It has already closed.’”)
  • あげます / もらいます / くれます means to give something to someone else, means to receive something from someone, and means that someone gives something to me or my side. With , the recipient takes ; with , the source can take or . (“I bought another chocolate at a shop in this station and gave it to my younger sister at home.”)

English

Chocolate at the Station

On Thursday evening, I bought chocolate at a shop in the station.
It was a birthday present for my younger sister.
But when I looked inside my bag on the train, the chocolate was not there. I had forgotten it on the table at the shop.
I got off at the next station and asked an attendant, “Is the shop at that station still open?”
The station attendant said, “It has already closed.”
I bought another chocolate at a shop in this station and gave it to my younger sister at home.