Grammar practice

Forty-five sentences with one piece taken out, drawn from the fifteen patterns a beginner meets first. Pick what goes in the gap. The English and the words used are underneath each one, so a sentence you cannot read is still a sentence you can learn something from.

Furigana is above every kanji. Answer with a click or press 1 to 4; Enter moves on. Nothing is saved and there is no account, so refreshing deals a new order.

The fifteen patterns these come from

Each lesson gives the form, what it actually claims, three worked examples and the patterns it gets confused with.

〜てはいけない te wa ikenai N5 must not do; is not allowed to 〜たら tara N4 if / when / after (conditional & sequential) 〜ながら nagara N4 while doing (two actions at once, same subject) 〜たことがある ta koto ga aru N5 have done before; have experience of は vs が wa vs ga N5 topic marker (は) vs subject marker (が) 〜てもいい temo ii N5 may do; it's okay to do (permission) を wo / o N5 direct object marker に ni N5 destination, target, time-point, indirect object, location of existence で de N5 location of action, means/tool, cause, time-span と to N5 with (accompaniment), and (exhaustive list), quotation marker から・まで kara / made N5 from (source, start-point) / until (endpoint, limit) の no N5 linking particle (possessive, attribute, nominalizer) も mo N5 also / too / even (inclusion particle) か ka N5 question marker (sentence-end); or (between nouns); whether (embedded question) へ e / he N5 direction toward (movement-only)

Answering once is not the same as remembering. In the app these fifteen sit in their own review pile, separate from your vocabulary, and come back at widening intervals until they stick. They are seeded free into every deck and never count towards the free plan's 100 words.

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