N5 Vocabulary · Test 10

The sentence means 'My room is on the 2nd floor of this ___.' The word that fits is アパート (apartment), since rooms are located on floors of an apartment building. Answer 4 is correct.

• 1エレベーター means 'elevator.' You would not say your room is on the 2nd floor of an elevator.
• 2プール means 'pool.' A room is not on a floor of a pool.
• 3エアコン means 'air conditioner.' A room is not on a floor of an air conditioner.

• アパート — apartment
• エレベーター — elevator
• プール — pool
• エアコン — air conditioner
• へや — room
• 2かい（にかい） — 2nd floor

The sentence means 'Sato-san plays the guitar well.' The verb used for playing string instruments like the guitar is ひきます (to play (an instrument)). Answer 3 is correct.

• 1うたいます means 'to sing.' You sing a song, not a guitar.
• 2ききます means 'to listen.' You listen to music, but you don't 'listen' a guitar as the action of performing.
• 4あそびます means 'to play' in the sense of playing/having fun (e.g., children playing). It is not used for playing a musical instrument.

• ギター — guitar
• ひきます — to play (a stringed instrument)
• うたいます — to sing
• ききます — to listen
• あそびます — to play (have fun)
• じょうずに — skillfully, well

The sentence means 'Please ___ plates and chopsticks on the table.' The correct verb is ならべて (te-form of ならべる, 'to arrange/line up/set out'), since you arrange plates and chopsticks on a table. Answer 1 is correct.

• 2とって means 'to take.' You don't 'take' plates and chopsticks on the table in this context.
• 3たべて means 'to eat.' You don't eat plates and chopsticks.
• 4あらって means 'to wash.' While you might wash dishes, the context says to do something on the table, so 'arrange' fits.

• ならべて — arrange, line up, set out (te-form of ならべる)
• とって — take (te-form of とる)
• たべて — eat (te-form of たべる)
• あらって — wash (te-form of あらう)
• おさら — plates (polite)
• はし — chopsticks
• テーブル — table

The sentence means 'I cleaned this morning, so the room is ___.' After cleaning, the room becomes きれい (clean/tidy). Answer 1 is correct.

• 2きたない means 'dirty.' Cleaning would not make the room dirty.
• 3あかるい means 'bright.' Cleaning doesn't directly make a room bright (that relates to lighting/windows).
• 4くらい means 'dark.' Cleaning doesn't make a room dark.

• きれい — clean, pretty, tidy
• きたない — dirty
• あかるい — bright
• くらい — dark
• そうじ — cleaning
• けさ — this morning

The sentence means 'Today I swam 500 ___.' The counter for distance in swimming is メートル (meters). 500 meters is a common swimming distance. Answer 3 is correct.

• 1ど is the counter for degrees (e.g., temperature). You don't swim '500 degrees.'
• 2ばん is a counter for numbers/orders (e.g., 'first,' 'second'). It doesn't measure swimming distance.
• 4グラム means 'grams' (weight). You don't swim '500 grams.'

• メートル — meter (unit of distance)
• ど — degree (temperature/angle)
• ばん — number, order (counter)
• グラム — gram (unit of weight)
• およぎました — swam (past tense of およぐ)

The underlined sentence says まいばん (毎晩, every night) くにの かぞくに でんわします (I call my family in my home country). Option 3 says よるは (in the evening/at night) いつも (always) — 'every night' and 'always at night' convey the same meaning.

• 1よるは ときどき (sometimes at night) — ときどき means 'sometimes,' which does not match まいばん 'every night.'
• 2あさは ときどき (sometimes in the morning) — wrong time of day and wrong frequency.
• 4あさは いつも (always in the morning) — correct frequency but wrong time of day; まいばん refers to night, not morning.

• まいばん — every night
• よる — night / evening
• あさ — morning
• いつも — always
• ときどき — sometimes
• くに — home country
• かぞく — family

The underlined sentence says この まちには ゆうめいな たてものが あります (This town has a famous building). たてもの (建物) means 'building,' and option 1 uses ビル (building), which is the closest paraphrase.

• 2おちゃ (tea) is a drink, not a building — wrong category.
• 3ケーキ (cake) is food, not a building — wrong category.
• 4こうえん (公園, park) is an outdoor area, not a building (たてもの) — a park is not the same as a building.

• たてもの — building
• ビル — building (loanword from 'building')
• ゆうめいな（有名な） — famous
• こうえん — park
• まち — town

The underlined sentence says その えいがは おもしろくなかったです (That movie was not interesting). The opposite of おもしろい (interesting) is つまらない (boring/dull), so option 2 — つまらなかったです — is the correct paraphrase.

• 1たのしかったです (was fun/enjoyable) — this is a positive meaning, opposite to 'not interesting.'
• 3みじかかったです (was short) — describes length, not how interesting the movie was.
• 4ながかったです (was long) — describes length, not interest level.

• おもしろい（面白い） — interesting / funny
• つまらない — boring / dull
• たのしい（楽しい） — fun / enjoyable
• みじかい（短い） — short (in length/time)
• ながい（長い） — long (in length/time)
• えいが — movie

The underlined sentence says たんじょうびは 6がつ 15にちです (My birthday is June 15th). A birthday is the day you were born, so option 3 — 6がつ 15にちに うまれました (I was born on June 15th) — is the correct paraphrase.

• 1けっこんしました (got married) — marriage date is not the same as birthday.
• 2テストが はじまりました (a test started) — unrelated to birthday.
• 4くにへ かえりました (returned to my home country) — unrelated to birthday.

• たんじょうび — birthday
• うまれる（生まれる） — to be born
• けっこんする（結婚する） — to get married
• テスト — test / exam
• はじまる（始まる） — to begin

The underlined sentence says にねんまえに きょうとへ いきました (I went to Kyoto two years ago). にねんまえ (二年前) means 'two years ago,' which is the same as おととし (一昨年, the year before last). Option 4 correctly paraphrases this.

• 1きのう (yesterday) — only one day ago, not two years.
• 2おととい (the day before yesterday) — two days ago, not two years.
• 3きょねん (last year) — one year ago, not two years.

• にねんまえ — two years ago
• おととし — the year before last (two years ago)
• きのう — yesterday
• おととい — the day before yesterday
• きょねん — last year
• きょうと — Kyoto