僕(ぼく) bokuは wa若(わか)い()頃(ころ) wakaikoroは wa気短(きみじ) kimijiか kaだった datta。 I was short-tempered when I was young. Literal I [topic-は] young time [contrast-は] short-tempered was. 気短か (きみじか, 'short-tempered, impatient') — literally 'short spirit.' Double は: 僕は sets the topic, 若い頃は adds contrastive temporal scope, implying the speaker is no longer short-tempered. youthpersonalitycontrastive は
僕(ぼく) bokuは wa若(わか)い()頃(ころ) wakaikoroは wa気短(きみじ) kimijiか kaだった datta。 I was short-tempered when I was young. Literal I [topic-は] young time [contrast-は] short-tempered was. 気短か (きみじか, 'short-tempered, impatient') — literally 'short spirit.' Double は: 僕は sets the topic, 若い頃は adds contrastive temporal scope, implying the speaker is no longer short-tempered. youthpersonalitycontrastive は