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Featured Kanji
(たかい・たか・コウ)
high

Vocabulary

  • — big; large
  • — sandwich
  • — this morning
  • — bakery
  • — meat
  • — egg
  • — to see; to look
  • — expensive; high
  • — today
  • — want (something)
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — which (of two)
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — to say
  • — to buy

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜がほしいです (want a thing) Noun + says that the speaker wants a thing. The thing wanted takes , not . (“But today, I want a big sandwich.”)
  • A は B より〜です A B 〜 compares two things: A is more … than B. marks the thing compared against. (“The meat sandwich is more expensive than the egg sandwich.”)
  • どちら / どれ (which) asks which of two things is …; asks which of three or more. The answer takes too. (“I asked the shop staff, ‘Which one is bigger?’”)

English

A Big Sandwich

This morning, I saw a meat sandwich and an egg sandwich at the bakery.
The meat sandwich is more expensive than the egg sandwich.
But today, I want a big sandwich.
I asked the shop staff, “Which one is bigger?”
The shop staff said, “It is the meat sandwich.”
Therefore, I bought the expensive meat sandwich.