N4 Vocabulary · Test 72

村 is read むら (mura), meaning 'village.' The sentence means 'Yesterday I walked back from the neighboring village.' Option 4 (むら) is the correct reading.

• 1うち means 'house/home' and is written 家, not 村.
• 2えき means 'station' and is written 駅, not 村.
• 3まち means 'town' and is written 町, not 村. This is a plausible distractor since both 町 and 村 refer to settlements, but the kanji is 村.

• 村むら — village

歩いて is read あるいて (aruite), the te-form of 歩く (あるく, 'to walk'). The sentence means 'Yesterday I walked back from the neighboring village.' Option 3 (あるいて) is the correct reading.

• 1ないて is the te-form of 泣く (なく, 'to cry'), written 泣いて, not 歩いて.
• 2はいて is the te-form of 履く (はく, 'to put on shoes/pants') or 吐く (はく, 'to vomit/spit'), neither of which matches 歩いて.
• 4つづいて is the te-form of 続く (つづく, 'to continue'), written 続いて, not 歩いて.

• 歩あるく — to walk
• 歩あるいて — walking (te-form)

The verb 帰る (かえる, 'to return home') conjugates to its te-form as 帰って (かえって). The sentence means 'Yesterday I walked back (returned) from the neighboring village.' The correct reading is かえって.

• 2とまって is 止まって ('stop'), a completely different verb with no connection to returning home.
• 3まいって is 参って ('go/come' in humble form, or 'to be exhausted'), which does not fit the context of walking back home.
• 4もどって is 戻って ('to go back / return'), which is plausible as a near-synonym, but the kanji 帰る specifically reads かえる, not もどる.

• 帰かえる — to return (home)
• 歩あるいて — walking
• 村むら — village

The adjective 重い (おもい, 'heavy') conjugates to its te-form as 重くて (おもくて). The sentence means 'This suitcase is heavy and inconvenient.' The correct reading is おもくて.

• 1あつくて could be 厚くて ('thick') or 暑くて ('hot'), neither of which describes a suitcase's weight.
• 3ふかくて is 深くて ('deep'), not applicable to a suitcase being heavy.
• 4まずくて is 不味くて ('bad-tasting / unskillful'), unrelated to weight.

• 重おもい — heavy
• スーツケース — suitcase
• 不便ふべん — inconvenient

不便 is read ふべん, meaning 'inconvenient.' The sentence means 'This suitcase is heavy and inconvenient.' The correct reading is ふべん.

• 1ふびん (不憫) means 'pitiful / sad,' a lookalike compound with a different meaning.
• 3ふうびん is not a standard reading for 不便; it is a distractor inserting an extra long vowel.
• 4ふうべん is also not a standard reading; it similarly inserts an extra long vowel to mislead.

• 不便ふべん — inconvenient

The sentence means 'I tried using the new dictionary, but it wasn't very useful.' The correct answer is 4 やくにたたなかった, the negative past of 役に立つ (to be useful/helpful). Since the subject is a dictionary (じしょ), evaluating its usefulness is the natural continuation, especially with あまり (not very) + negative.

• 1かたづけなかった (片付けなかった) means 'didn't tidy up / didn't put away' — you don't 'tidy up' a dictionary you tried using.
• 2とりかえなかった (取り替えなかった) means 'didn't replace / didn't exchange' — while you might exchange a dictionary, the sentence says つかってみたけれど (tried using it, but…), so the focus is on the result of using it, not on exchanging it.
• 3きをつけなかった (気をつけなかった) means 'didn't pay attention / wasn't careful' — not relevant to evaluating a dictionary's quality.

• 役に立つ（やくにたつ） — to be useful, to be helpful
• 片付かたづける — to tidy up, to put away
• 取り替える（とりかえる） — to replace, to exchange
• 気きをつける — to pay attention, to be careful

The sentence means 'I paid 3000 yen at the bookstore's cash register.' The correct answer is 4 レジ, meaning 'cash register' (from English 'register'). At a bookstore (ほんや), you pay at the レジ, making this the natural choice.

• 1スクリーン means 'screen' (e.g., a movie screen or computer screen) — not where you pay at a store.
• 2ワープロ means 'word processor' — a device for typing documents, not related to paying at a bookstore.
• 3レポート means 'report' (a written assignment or document) — not related to paying at a store.

• レジ — cash register (from 'register')
• スクリーン — screen (movie/display)
• ワープロ — word processor
• レポート — report (written document)

The sentence means 'There was a phone call a moment ago.' The correct answer is 1 さっき, meaning 'a moment ago' or 'just now.' It is a time expression that naturally modifies when the phone call happened, fitting the past-tense ありましたよ.

• 2ちっとも means 'not at all' and is used with negative predicates (ちっとも〜ない) — it cannot modify でんわがありました (a positive sentence).
• 3もうすぐ means 'soon' or 'in a little while' — it refers to the near future, but the sentence is in the past tense (ありました), so it doesn't fit.
• 4ほとんど means 'mostly' or 'almost' — while ほとんど can sometimes be used with past tense, 'ほとんどでんわがありました' is unnatural; ほとんど typically quantifies a noun or pairs with a negative.

• さっき — a moment ago, just now
• ちっとも — not at all (used with negative)
• もうすぐ — soon, in a little while
• ほとんど — mostly, almost

The correct answer is 1 (いか, written 以下). 50000円いか means '50,000 yen or under / not exceeding 50,000 yen.' The sentence means 'I want to rent a room for under 50,000 yen a month.' 以下 attaches directly to a quantity to set an upper limit, which fits perfectly here.

• 2いがい (以外) means 'except for / other than.' 50000円いがい would mean 'other than 50,000 yen,' which does not describe a price range for renting a room.
• 3いせん (以前) means 'before / previously' in time. It cannot modify a price in this way.
• 4いっぱい (一杯) means 'full' or 'one cup.' It does not fit a price expression.

• 以下いか — not exceeding; up to; ...or less
• 以外いがい — except for; other than
• 以前いせん — before; previously
• 借かりる — to rent; to borrow