N5EmailWork1 min

アルバイトを休(やす)みます

A part-time worker writes to her manager that she is ill.

A short work e-mail in polite Japanese. Look at how Rin gives the reason first and the request after it, and at the set phrase that closes almost every Japanese e-mail: よろしくお願(ねが)いします.

From リン

To たなかさん

Subject 今日(きょう)と明日(あした)のアルバイト

田中(たなか)さん

おはようございます。アルバイトのリンです。

すみません、昨日(きのう)の夜(よる)から熱(ねつ)があります。頭(あたま)も痛(いた)いです。今朝(けさ)、病院(びょういん)へ行(い)きました。医者(いしゃ)は「風邪(かぜ)です。二日(ふつか)休(やす)んでください」と言(い)いました。

ですから、今日(きょう)と明日(あした)のアルバイトを休(やす)みます。忙(いそが)しい時(とき)に、すみません。

土曜日(どようび)は大丈夫(だいじょうぶ)です。金曜日(きんようび)の夜(よる)に、もう一度(いちど)電話(でんわ)します。

よろしくお願(ねが)いします。

リン

More sentences on this in “Language in use”: Japanese for work

Words: 58
Sentences: 13
Words per sentence: 4.5
in the vocabulary: 100 %
measured level: N5
Reading time: 1 min

Grammar in this text

These forms appear in the text in real use. Switch on “Show grammar” above the text to highlight them.

ですから
ですから at the start of a sentence: “so, for that reason”. It is the polite form of だから. And, then, but, so: joining sentences in speech →
休(やす)んでください
The doctor’s instruction, quoted: 休(やす)んでください, “please rest”. てください: asking someone to do something →
夜(よる)から
から after a time: since last night. From, until, by: から, まで, までに →

The words from N5 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 29 of the 41 words in this text are at N5 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

おはようございます
good morning
N5
ください
please give me
N5
すみません
excuse me; sorry; thank you
N5
する
to do
N5
ですから
therefore; so (polite)
N5
もう一度
once more; again
N5
よろしくお願いします
I look forward to working with you; please treat me kindly
N5
アルバイト
part-time job; side job
N5
二日
the 2nd (of the month); two days
N5
今日
today
N5
今朝
this morning
N5
休む
to rest; to take time off
N5
医者
doctor
N5
土曜日
Saturday
N5
夜
night; evening
N5
大丈夫
all right; fine
N5
忙しい
busy
N5
明日
tomorrow
N5
昨日
yesterday
N5
時
time; when
N5
熱
fever; temperature
N4
病院
hospital; doctor's surgery
N5
痛い
painful; it hurts
N5
行く
to go
N5
言う
to say
N5
金曜日
Friday
N5
電話
telephone; phone call
N5
頭
head
N5
風邪
cold (illness)
N5

The word lists for this text

The words in this text appear in 13 lists on this site; the number after each says how many come from that list. Having read the text, you have just needed these very words — and can practise exactly them.

Telling the time and the calendar 8 Basic verbs 4 The body and feeling unwell 3 Greetings and set phrases 3 Basic adjectives 2 Jobs and work 2 Adverbs, time words and linking words 1 Connectors and sentence openers 1 Counting things 1 At the doctor's 1 Phone and internet 1 Shopping 1 Places in town 1

Comprehension questions

3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.

1. Since when has Rin had a fever?

2. What did the doctor tell her?

3. When will Rin phone again?