Ok, haven’t gotten any more posts so here’s the answer. I’ve made it long just to be thorough, however you don’t need to read it all, just flick through and use what you need.

★日本語★
トイレットペーパーがなくなりましたら
お手数ですが０４２２２３８２６０まで
お電話くださいませ

★英語★
If the toilet paper runs out, its troublesome but please call 0422238260.

★単語★
トイレットペーパー ・ Toilet Paper
お手数 (おてすう）・ Trouble/Labor
電話 （でんわ）・ Telephone

★文章★

トイレットペーパーがなくなりましたら

なくなる is the negative grammar point which means “to change from one state to another”. So something was there and now it is not. In this case the toilet paper. なりましたら, たら is conditional so “if” essentially. NOTE: 亡くなる (なくなる) means “to pass away”, however, this is a different なくなる.

お手数ですが

お手数’s meaning seems a little hard to translate accurately, but “troublesome” or “a pain” seems close. ですが means “it is , BUT” the が adds that but.

０４２２２３８２６０まで

まで sometimes marks phone numbers in Japanese. In this case the usage is identical to the particle に to make the destination/location and に is often used in its place.

お電話くださいませ

電話, telephone. くださる is the honorific （尊敬語） version of ください and くださいませ is the imperative form (命令形）. So a quite polite way of giving an order :). You may recognise pattern in いらっしゃいませ！which is an honorific of 来る, its regular form being いらっしゃる.

If anyone would like some more information of those honorifics check here. http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/3829536.html (Japanese only)

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