美術館びじゅつかんのチケット






Featured Kanji
(みる・ケン)
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Vocabulary

  • — art museum
  • — ticket
  • — yesterday
  • — morning
  • — I; me
  • — Maria (polite name)
  • — to go
  • — to arrive
  • — there isn’t; I don’t have (polite negative of あります)
  • — hurriedly; in a hurry
  • — bag
  • — inside; middle
  • — to see; to look
  • — smiling; laughing (て-form of 笑わらいます)
  • — to have; to hold (polite て-form + います, ongoing state)
  • — to say
  • — to receive
  • — two people
  • — to enter

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜が (but) between two clauses means ‘but’ and joins two contrasting ideas into one sentence. The first clause usually ends in the polite form. (“We arrived at the art museum, but I didn’t have my ticket.”)
  • Sentence-final よ at the end of a sentence tells the listener something new or adds emphasis to what the speaker is saying. (“Maria smiled and said, ‘I have your ticket!’”)

English

The Art Museum Ticket

Yesterday morning, I went to the art museum with Maria.
We arrived at the art museum, but I didn’t have my ticket.
I hurriedly looked inside my bag.
Maria smiled and said, “I have your ticket!”
I received the ticket from Maria.
And then, the two of us went inside.