• 図書館としょかん
  • ·library
  N5
• 働くはたらくAs it appears here: 働いて
  • ·to work; to labor; to labour
  • ·to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play
  • ·to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice
  • ·to be conjugated
  N5
• 本ほん
  • ·book; volume; script
  • ·this; present; current; ... in question; ... at issue
  • ·main; head; principal
  • ·real; genuine; regular; proper
  • ·counter for long, thin objects (sticks, tubes, strings, bottles, pillars, rivers, rail lines, etc.)
  • ·counter for films, TV shows, etc.
  • ·counter for telephone calls, letters, and emails
  • ·counter for goals, home runs, etc.
  • ·counter for rounds or points (in judo, kendo, etc.)
  N5
• どこ
  • ·where; what place
  • ·how much (long, far); what extent
  N5
• どの
  • ·which; what (way)
  N5
• 置くおく
  • ·to put; to place
  • ·to leave (behind)
  • ·to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
  • ·to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
  • ·to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.); to bear (in mind, etc.)
  • ·to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
  • ·to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
  • ·to separate spatially or temporally
  • ·to do something in advance
  • ·to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state
  N5
• するAs it appears here: します
  • ·to do; to carry out; to perform
  • ·to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)
  • ·to serve as; to act as; to work as
  • ·to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
  • ·to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as
  • ·to decide on; to choose
  • ·to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
  • ·to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
  • ·to be worth; to cost
  • ·to pass (of time); to elapse
  • ·to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
  • ·to transform A to B; to make A into B; to exchange A for B
  • ·to make use of A for B; to view A as B; to handle A as if it were B
  • ·to feel A about B
  • ·verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
  • ·creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
  • ·to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to
  N5
• 新聞しんぶん
  • ·newspaper
  N5
• よい
  • ·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
• 書くかくAs it appears here: 書いたり
  • ·to write; to compose; to pen
  • ·to draw; to paint
  N5
• 小さなちいさな
  • ·small; little; tiny
  N5
• 読むよむAs it appears here: 読んだり
  • ·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
• 相談そうだん
  • ·consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (someone) for advice
  N3
• 本のほんの
  • ·mere; only; just; slight
  N1

Example sentences are translated by AI.

• についてN3

  Marks the topic an action or statement is directed at; 'about', 'concerning', 'regarding'.

  本についての相談を受けたり、どこにどの本を置くのがいいか考えたりします。

  They take questions about books and think about which book is best placed where.

• 〜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”.

  石田さんは、川下図書館で働いています。

  Ishida-san works at Kawashimo Library.

• 〜たり〜たりN54 times in this passage

  Lists a few representative actions among others done at various times, 'do things like X and Y'.

  本についての相談を受けたり、どこにどの本を置くのがいいか考えたりします。

  They take questions about books and think about which book is best placed where.

• それからN5

  Sequential connective linking events in order, 'and then / after that'.

  それから、図書館の新聞によい本の紹介文を書いたり、小さな子どもたちに絵本を読んだりします。

  They also write reviews of good books for the library newsletter and read picture books to small children.