N5 Grammar · Test 21

The correct answer is 4 (で). The sentence means 'My family is 8 people in total.' Here, ぜんぶで is a fixed expression meaning 'in total / altogether,' where で indicates the extent or total of a quantity. 'ぜんぶで8人です' = 'altogether, it's 8 people.'

• 1が is the subject marker and cannot be used here. 'ぜんぶが8人です' is ungrammatical in this context because ぜんぶで is a set phrase for expressing a total.
• 2の would try to modify 8人, giving 'ぜんぶの8人' (all 8 people), which changes the meaning entirely and does not express 'in total.'
• 3を is the direct object marker and has no role here. There is no action being performed on ぜんぶ.

• ぜんぶ — all, everything
• かぞく — family
• ぜんぶで — in total, altogether

The correct answer is 2 (どの). どのぐらい (also written どのくらい) is a fixed expression meaning 'how much / how long / to what extent.' The sentence means 'About how much does it snow in a year?' Among the options, only どの can combine with ぐらい to form this expression.

• 1どこ means 'where.' どこぐらい is not a valid expression.
• 3どう means 'how (in what way).' どうぐらい is not a valid expression.
• 4どんな means 'what kind of.' どんなぐらい is not a valid expression.

• 一年いちねん — one year
• どのぐらい — how much, how long, to what extent
• ゆき — snow
• ふる — to fall (precipitation), to come down

The correct answer is 3 (にぎやかで). The sentence means 'This town is a bustling and convenient place.' にぎやか is a na-adjective, and で is the te-form connecting form for na-adjectives. 'にぎやかでべんりなところ' links two na-adjectives (にぎやか and べんり) modifying the noun ところ (place).

• 1にぎやか alone cannot connect to べんりな. To modify a noun directly you would need にぎやかな, but here two adjectives must be joined, which requires the te-form で.
• 2にぎやかだ is the plain copula form (used at the end of a sentence), but it cannot be used to connect to another adjective. It would break the sentence structure.
• 4にぎやかの is incorrect. の is not used to connect na-adjectives. For na-adjectives modifying nouns directly, な is used (にぎやかな), and for connecting two na-adjectives, で is used.

• にぎやか（賑やか）（にぎやか） — bustling, lively
• べんり（便利） — convenient
• ところ（所） — place

The correct answer is 2 (見て). The sentence means 'I look at the dictionary and memorize kanji' or 'I memorize kanji by looking at the dictionary.' 見て is the te-form of 見る, which here indicates means/method: 'by looking at the dictionary, I memorize kanji.' The te-form connects the two actions naturally.

• 1見る is the dictionary form and cannot directly connect to かんじをおぼえます in this sentence. It would create an ungrammatical sequence.
• 3見た is the past tense plain form. It cannot be used to connect to another verb phrase in this manner and would make the sentence ungrammatical.
• 4見に would be used for purpose (e.g., じしょを見に行きます 'go to see the dictionary'), but here the structure じしょを見にかんじをおぼえます does not work grammatically.

• 見みて — looking at (te-form of 見る: to look/see)
• じしょ（辞書） — dictionary
• かんじ（漢字） — kanji, Chinese characters
• おぼえます（覚えます）（おぼえます） — memorize, remember

The correct answer is 4 (読まない). The sentence means 'I'm busy in the morning so I don't read the newspaper.' いそがしくて (busy-TE form) gives the reason, and the main clause needs a negative present-tense verb: 読まない (don't read). 'あさ(は)いそがしくてしんぶんは読まない' = 'I'm busy in the morning, so I don't read the newspaper.'

• 1読みた is not a valid verb form. The 'want to' form would be 読みたい, but even that would not fit the causal structure (being busy → not reading).
• 2読んだ is the past tense plain form ('read'). This does not match the present-tense negative meaning required by the context of being busy and therefore not reading.
• 3読みない is an invalid form. The correct negative form of a godan verb like 読む is 読まない (change the ます-stem's final consonant group: み→ま + ない). 読みない does not exist in standard Japanese.

• いそがしくて（忙しくて）（いそがしくて） — being busy (te-form, indicating reason)
• しんぶん（新聞） — newspaper
• 読よまない — don't read (negative plain form of 読む)

The sentence means 'Please cut the bread in half.' The pattern V-て + ください makes a polite request. The verb 切る (きる, to cut) has the te-form 切って (きって), so option 2 is correct: パンを半分にきってください。

• 1きて is not a valid te-form of 切る. It resembles the te-form of 着る (きる, to wear), which is a ru-verb and forms きて — but the context (cutting bread) requires the godan verb 切る.
• 3きりて is an incorrect te-form. Godan verbs ending in ～る do not form their te-form with ～りて; that pattern belongs to verbs ending in ～る that conjugate like ある→あって, not 切る.
• 4きらって is not a valid te-form of any standard verb here. It does not correspond to 切る's conjugation.

• 切きる — to cut (godan verb)
• 半分はんぶん — half
• 〜てください — please do ~ (request pattern)