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これは、山やま田だ先せん生せいからトムさんに届とどいたメールです。

トムさん

明あ日した（30日にち）の約やく束そくですが、会かい議ぎにでなければならなくなりました。

それで、すみませんが、約やく束そくを31日にちの午ご後ご3時ときに変かえられませんか。

トムさんの都つ合ごうがよければ、オフィスで待まっています。

このメールを読よんだら、返へん事じをください。

山やま田だ

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  1. 1トムさんは、山田先生に何を知らせなければなりませんか。

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Vocabulary6 words
  • 約束やくそく
    • ·promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact
    • ·appointment; engagement; date
    • ·convention; rule
    • ·destiny; fate
    N4
  • 会議かいぎ
    • ·meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention; congress
    N4
  • それで
    • ·so; therefore; and; (and) then
    N4
  • 変えるかえるAs it appears here: 変えられません
    • ·to change; to alter; to transform; to convert; to turn; to vary
    • ·to reform; to revise; to amend
    N4
  • 都合つごう
    • ·circumstances; condition; convenience
    • ·arranging; managing
    • ·lending money; raising money
    • ·in all; in total; all told
    N4
  • 返事へんじ
    • ·reply; answer; response
    N4
Other levels13 words
  • これ
    • ·this; this one
    • ·this person
    • ·now; this point (in time)
    • ·here
    • ·used to stress the subject of a sentence
    • ·I; me
    N5
  • 先生せんせい
    • ·teacher; instructor; master
    • ·sensei; (expl.) title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.
    • ·(expl.) intimate or teasing form of address
    • ·one's elder
    N5
  • 明日あした
    • ·tomorrow
    • ·near future
    N5
  • なるAs it appears here: なりました
    • ·to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
    • ·to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
    • ·to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
    • ·to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
    • ·to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
    • ·to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
    • ·to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
    • ·to play (the part of); to act as
    • ·to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
    • ·to be promoted
    • ·to do ...
    N5
  • 午後ごご
    • ·afternoon; p.m.
    N5
  • よいAs it appears here: よければ
    • ·good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
    • ·sufficient; enough; ready; prepared
    • ·profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
    • ·OK; all right; fine; no problem
    • ·easy to ...
    N5
  • 待つまつAs it appears here: 待って
    • ·to wait
    • ·to await; to look forward to; to anticipate
    • ·to depend on; to need
    N5
  • この
    • ·this
    • ·last (couple of years, etc.); these; past; this
    • ·you (as in "you liar")
    N5
  • 読むよむAs it appears here: 読ん
    • ·to read
    • ·to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant
    • ·to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
    • ·to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
    • ·to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time)
    • ·to count; to estimate
    • ·to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
    N5
  • 届くとどくAs it appears here: 届いた
    • ·to reach; to touch; to get to; to carry (of sound)
    • ·to be delivered; to arrive
    • ·to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to be thorough
    • ·to be realized (of a desire); to be fulfilled; to get through (to someone); to be appreciated; to make an impression
    N3
  • 日にち
    • ·Sunday
    • ·nth day (of the month)
    • ·counter for days
    • ·Japan
    N3
  • すみません
    • ·excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; I beg your pardon
    • ·thank you; you shouldn't have; it's too much
    N3
  • くださるAs it appears here: ください
    • ·to give; to confer; to bestow
    • ·to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour; to favor
    N3
Grammar1 patterns

Example sentences are translated by AI.

  • たらN4

    Conditional/temporal ending on the plain-past stem meaning that once or if the first action happens, the second follows ('if / once / when ... then').

    このメールを読んだら、返事をください。

    Please reply once you have read this email.

Other levels4 patterns
  • だ / ですN52 times in this passage

    The copula linking a noun or na-adjective to the subject — plain だ / polite です, 'is/am/are'.

    これは、山田先生からトムさんに届いたメールです。

    This is an email that arrived for Tom-san from Yamada-sensei.

  • ませんかN5

    A polite invitation or suggestion, "won't you...?" / "would you like to...?"

    それで、すみませんが、約束を31日の午後3時に変えられませんか。

    So I am sorry, but could we change the appointment to 3 p.m. on the 31st?

  • 〜ているN5

    Describes an action in progress or the state that remains after an action happened — “is doing” or “is in the state of having done”.

    トムさんの都合がよければ、オフィスで待っています。

    If that suits you, Tom-san, I will be waiting in my office.

  • をくださいN5

    Requests that the listener give the speaker a specified noun, 'please give me ~'.

    このメールを読んだら、返事をください。

    Please reply once you have read this email.

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