動うごかなかった時計とけい






Featured Kanji
(あう・カイ)
meet

Vocabulary

  • — move; work (e.g., a watch works)
  • — watch; clock
  • — p.m.; afternoon
  • — I; me
  • — park
  • — entrance
  • — friend
  • — meet
  • — intend to; plan to
  • — time
  • — understand; know
  • — be troubled
  • — woman (lit. ‘female person’)
  • — tell; teach
  • — say
  • — show
  • — see; look
  • — quickly; early
  • — go

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜つもりです (intend to) Dictionary form + states a plan or an intention: what someone means to do. (“At 2:30 p.m., I was in a park and intended to meet my friend at the entrance at three.”)
  • Adjectives as adverbs (〜く / 〜に) An adjective describes a verb by changing its ending: an i-adjective replaces with ( becomes ) and a na-adjective takes , as in and . (“I quickly went to the entrance and met my friend at three.”)
  • 〜と言いいます (say that) reports what someone says, and marks the reported content. An indirectly reported clause normally takes the plain form. A direct quotation in keeps the speaker’s original wording. (“Feeling troubled, I said to a woman in the park, “Excuse me, please tell me the time.””)

English

The Watch That Did Not Work

At 2:30 p.m., I was in a park and intended to meet my friend at the entrance at three.
However, my watch did not work, so I did not know the time.
Feeling troubled, I said to a woman in the park, “Excuse me, please tell me the time.”
The woman showed me her watch.
The time on her watch was 2:50.
I quickly went to the entrance and met my friend at three.