N5 Grammar · Test 53

The correct answer is 1 (どの). どの is a 連体詞 (pre-noun adjectival) that must come directly before a noun. どのでんしゃ means 'which train.' The sentence means 'Which train is your mother coming by?'

• 2どれ means 'which one' and is a pronoun used standalone, not before a noun. You would say でんしゃはどれですか (Which one is the train?), but どれでんしゃ is ungrammatical.
• 3どこ means 'where.' どこでんしゃ is ungrammatical. If asking 'from where,' you would use どこから.
• 4どちら means 'which direction/which one (polite)' and is used standalone, not modifying a noun. どちらでんしゃ is ungrammatical.

• おかあさん — (your) mother
• でんしゃ — train (electric train)
• 来くる — to come
• どの — which (used before a noun)

The correct answer is 4 (がた). あなたがた is a polite/plural form of 'you' (you all / you, sir/madam). あなたがたのへや means 'your room.' The sentence means 'This is your room.' Among the options, only がた forms a grammatically valid word with あなた.

• 1など means 'etc., and so on.' あなたなど would mean 'you and others like you,' which is unnatural and somewhat dismissive in this context.
• 2ごろ means 'around (a time)' and is used with time expressions (e.g., 6時ごろ). あなたごろ is meaningless.
• 3ほど means 'degree/extent, as much as.' あなたほど would mean 'as much as you,' which does not fit before のへや.

• あなたがた — you (polite/plural form)
• へや — room

The correct answer is 3 (ごろ). ごろ is a suffix meaning 'around (a time),' attached to a specific clock time. 何時ごろ means 'around what time.' The sentence means 'This morning, around what time did you arrive at the company?'

• 1まで means 'until.' 何時まで means 'until what time,' which would ask about a duration or deadline rather than an approximate arrival time. While grammatically possible, it does not fit the natural context of asking when someone arrived.
• 2でも means 'even.' 何時でも means 'at any time,' which does not fit as a question asking for a specific approximate time.
• 4ぐらい means 'about, approximately' and is used for approximate quantities or durations (e.g., 1時間ぐらい 'about one hour'). While 何時ぐらい can sometimes be heard, ごろ is the standard and more natural suffix for asking an approximate point in time (何時ごろ), especially at the 4級 level.

• けさ — this morning
• 何時なんじ — what time
• ごろ — around (a time), about (a time)
• かいしゃ — company, office
• つく — to arrive

The correct answer is 4 (どちら). どちら is the polite form of どこ (where). お国はどちらですか is a standard polite expression meaning 'Where are you from? / Where is your country?' The honorific お is attached to 国, and どちら is the appropriately polite question word for asking someone's origin.

• 1何 means 'what.' お国は何ですか ('What is your country?') sounds like asking for the name or definition of the country, which is unnatural for asking someone's nationality or origin.
• 2どの means 'which' and must be followed by a noun (e.g., どの国). Used alone here, it is grammatically incomplete before ですか.
• 3どこか means 'somewhere.' It is an indefinite pronoun, not a question word, so it cannot be used in a question asking for specific information.

• お国（おくに） — your country (honorific)
• どちら — where (polite); which direction

The correct answer is ぐらい (option 4). 「1時間ぐらい」means 'about one hour.' ぐらい (or くらい) is used to express an approximate amount or duration.

• 1で marks means/location of action, not approximation. 「1時間でまちました」would mean 'waited in 1 hour' (completing within that time), which is unnatural here.
• 2ごろ is used for approximate clock times (e.g., 1時ごろ 'around 1 o'clock'), not for durations like 1時間.
• 3など means 'etc./things like,' which does not express approximation.

• 1時間（いちじかん） — one hour
• ～ぐらい — about/approximately～ (used with quantities/durations)
• まちました — waited (past tense of まつ)
• ごろ — around (used with specific times, e.g., 3時ごろ)

The correct answer is か (option 1). This is an embedded question. 「どこで買ったか覚えていますか」= 'Do you remember where you bought (it)?' The か turns the clause 「どこで買った」into a noun-like embedded question that becomes the object of 覚えていますか.

• 2を is a direct object marker, but an embedded question requires か (or のか), not を alone.
• 3は is a topic marker and cannot embed a question clause.
• 4の can appear in embedded questions (のか), but at this level the plain か is the standard and expected answer. 「買ったの覚えていますか」without か sounds incomplete/ungrammatical in this context.

• おぼえていますか — do you remember?
• ～か — question marker used to embed a question inside a larger sentence
• 買かった — bought (past tense of 買う)

The correct answer is で (option 4). 「かぜで」= 'because of a cold / due to a cold.' The particle で can indicate cause or reason. 「かぜで学校を休みました」= 'I took a day off from school due to a cold.'

• 1は is a topic marker and does not express cause/reason.
• 2や means 'and' (for an incomplete list of items, mainly nouns). It does not indicate cause.
• 3も means 'also/too' and does not express cause/reason.

• かぜ — cold (illness)
• ～で — due to/because of～ (indicates cause/reason)
• 学校がっこう — school
• 休やすみました — took a rest/day off (past of 休む)