On this page, you can learn Japanese words you can use in a daily conversation with the song 渡良瀬橋 (Watarase Bridge) by 森高千里 (Chisato Moritaka).
Official Music Video
The learning focus on this page is the expressions below.
- 渡良瀬橋で見る夕日を
- あなたはとても好きだったわ
You can find them in the video. Go to 0:05.
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Let’s have a look at the expressions more carefully. Scroll down please.
渡良瀬橋で見る夕日を
- 渡良瀬橋 (わた・ら・せ・ばし／wa ta ra se ba shi) means ‘Watarase Bridge’.
- で (de) is a location marking particle which means ‘at’.
- 見る（み・る／mi ru）means ‘see’.
- 夕日（ゆう・ひ／yu u hi）means ‘sunset’.
できる子
A relative clause comes after a noun described in English, but it comes before a noun in Japanese.
- を (wo) is an object marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
あなたはとても好きだったわ
- あなた (a na ta) means ‘you’.
- は (wa) is a topic marking particle which doesn’t mean anything.
- とても (to te mo) means ‘very’.
- 好きだった（す・きだった／su ki da t ta）is originally 好きだ（す・きだ／su ki da）which means ‘to like’.
- わ (wa) is a sentence ending particle.