Daily Japanese Story (≤ JLPT N5)






Featured Kanji
(まなぶ・ガク)
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Vocabulary

  • — dictionary
  • — morning
  • — 9 o’clock
  • — Japanese (language)
  • — class; lesson
  • — to start; begin
  • — bag
  • — to open
  • — there is not; do not have (polite negative)
  • — home; house
  • — to forget
  • — to think
  • — next to; neighbor
  • — student
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — to lend
  • — to say
  • — together
  • — to see; look
  • — two people
  • — one (counter for things)
  • — to use

Grammar / Notes

  • (“I thought …”). Use plain past/present inside + /. Example: “” (I thought I had forgotten it at home.)
  • (polite request: “please do …”). Example: “” (I said to the student next to me, “Excuse me, please lend me a dictionary.”)
  • (“let’s …” / suggestion). Example: “” (The student said, “Sure. Let’s look at it together.”)
  • Particle for means/method (“by; using”). Example: “” (We used one dictionary between the two of us.)

English

Dictionary

At 9 a.m., Japanese class started.
I opened my bag, but there was no dictionary.
I thought I had forgotten it at home.
I said to the student next to me, “Excuse me, please lend me a dictionary.”
The student said, “Sure. Let’s look at it together.”
We used one dictionary between the two of us.