ULTIMATE JLPT N5 GRAMMAR STUDY

Question 1

私はりんごです

Answer 1

I’m an apple (formal)

Question 2

私はりんごじゃありません

Answer 2

I’m not an apple (formal)

Question 3

私はりんごだ

Answer 3

I am an apple (casual)

Question 4

私はりんごじゃない

Answer 4

I’m not an apple (casual)

Question 5

私はりんごでした

Answer 5

I was an apple (formal)

Question 6

私はりんごだった

Answer 6

I was an apple (casual)

Question 7

私はりんごじゃありませんでした

Answer 7

I wasn’t an apple (formal)

Question 8

私はりんごじゃなかった

Answer 8

I wasn’t an apple (casual)

Question 9

私はりんごだけです

Answer 9

I’m just an apple / I’m only an apple (polite)

Question 10

食べます、食べません、食べました、食べませんでした
行きます、行きません、行きました、行きませんでした

Answer 10

MASU VERB CONJUGATION (formal)
to eat, not eat, ate, didn’t eat
to go, not go, gone, didn’t go

Question 11

食べる、食べない、食べなかった
行く、行かない、行かなかった

Answer 11

VERB “NEGATIVE” CONJUGATION (casual)
to eat, to not eat, didn’t eat
to go, to not go, didn’t go

Question 12

食べる、食べたい、食べたくない、食べたくなかった、食べたかった
行く、行きたい、行きたくない、行きたくなかった、行きたかった

Answer 12

VERB “WANT TO” CONJUGATION (add desu to be formal)

to eat, want to eat, don’t want to eat, didn’t want to eat, wanted to eat
to go, want to go, don’t want to go, didn’t want to go, wanted to go

Question 13

食べる、食べろ
行く、行け

Answer 13

VERB COMMAND (pretty rude) CONJUGATION
to eat, fcking EAT!!!!!
to go, fcking GO!!!

Question 14

ます、ましょう
行く、行こう
食べる、食べよう

Answer 14

VERB VOLITIONAL CONJUGATION (Let’s!)
verb masu conjugation + masu form lets! (polite)
to go, let’s go!
to eat, let’s eat!

Question 15

猫はどこですか

Answer 15

Where’s the cat?

Question 16

駅は何ですか

Answer 16

What’s a train?

Question 17

田中さんは誰ですか (very direct, sometimes impolite)

Answer 17

Who is A? (very direct)

Question 18

田中さんはどなたですか

Answer 18

Who is A? (formal)/(more polite)

Question 19

コーヒーがあります

彼氏がいます

Answer 19

There is coffee (inanimate)
I have a boyfriend (animate)

Question 20

さむいでしょう
さむいだろう

Answer 20

Cold isn’t it? (formal)
Cold isn’t it? (informal)

Question 21

この本を読みませんか？

Answer 21

Shall we read a book?
Won’t you read a book?

Question 22

Explain the differences between でも、しかし、けど、が

Answer 22

-でも is used at the BEGINNING of the sentence and SEMI formal/casual

-しかし is ALSO used at the BEGINNING of the sentence and is formal

-けど connects two clauses (semi-formal/casual) (けど + nouns/NA adj. = だけど

-が connects two clauses & is used at the END of a sentence formal stem i.e. ですが・ますが

Question 23

私は友達と映画を見ました

Answer 23

I watched a movie with my friend
(nounとnoun)

Question 24

食べましょうか

Answer 24

Lets eat? Shall we eat?

Question 25

食べてもいいですか

Answer 25

May I eat? Is it okay to eat?

Question 26

ここでは話してはいけませ

Answer 26

Here you’re forbidden to talk

Question 27

アメリカから来ました

Answer 27

Came from America

Question 28

暑いから窓を閉めてください

Answer 28

Hot so close the window please

Question 29

泳ぎに行きます

Answer 29

Go to swim

Question 30

行かないください