病院びょういんの近ちかくの喫茶店きっさてん






Featured Kanji
(つち・ト・ド)
soil

Vocabulary

  • — hospital
  • — nearby; close
  • — café; coffee shop
  • — Saturday
  • — morning
  • — I; me
  • — mother
  • — to wait
  • — coffee
  • — to drink
  • — vending machine
  • — reception desk; reception
  • — person
  • — shop; store
  • — to ask; to listen
  • — behind; back
  • — to say
  • — to go
  • — warm
  • — after; later
  • — to return; to go back
  • — again

Grammar / Notes

  • 〜まえに / 〜あとで follows a dictionary-form verb or noun + and means ‘before …’; follows a た-form verb or noun + and means ‘after …’. (“After drinking it, I went back to the hospital and waited for my mother again.”)
  • 〜ています (in progress) attaches to the て-form and describes an action that is going on right now, like the English ‘-ing’ form. (“On Saturday morning, I am waiting for my mother at the hospital.”)
  • 〜が (but) between two clauses means ‘but’ and joins two contrasting ideas into one sentence. The first clause usually ends in the polite form. (“I want to drink coffee, but there is no vending machine at the hospital.”)

English

The Café Near the Hospital

On Saturday morning, I am waiting for my mother at the hospital.
I want to drink coffee, but there is no vending machine at the hospital.
I asked the receptionist, “Is there a coffee shop nearby?”
The receptionist said, “There is a café behind the hospital.”
I went there and drank a warm coffee.
After drinking it, I went back to the hospital and waited for my mother again.