N5 Vocabulary · Test 35

学校 is read がっこう, with a small っ (促音) and the long vowel こう. Option 3 is the correct reading.

• 1がこう is missing the small っ, so the 促音 (geminate consonant) is lost.
• 2がこお has the small っ missing and uses おお instead of う for the long vowel; neither the 促音 nor the correct long vowel is present.
• 4がっこお has the small っ correct but uses おお instead of う for the long vowel sound. The correct long vowel is こう (こ+う), not こお.

• 学校がっこう — school
• いっしょに — together

「六本」is the counter for six long, thin objects (here, pencils). The number 六(ろく) undergoes rendaku (sound change) before the counter 本, and 本 also changes from ほん to ぽん. The result is ろっぽん (roku + hon → roppon). Option 4 is correct.

• 1「ろくぼん」would require 六 to stay ろく and 本 to become ぼん. This is the reading pattern for 三本(さんぼん), not 六本. The dakuten does not apply here.
• 2「ろくぽん」keeps 六 as ろく without the く→っ contraction. This is not a valid reading for 六本.
• 3「ろっぼん」has both the く→っ contraction and 本 changing to ぼん (with dakuten). Only the handakuten (ぽ) is correct, not the dakuten (ぼ).

• 六本ろっぽん — six long, thin objects (e.g. pencils, bottles)
• 本ほん/ぽん/ぼん — counter for long, thin objects

「新聞」is read しんぶん (shinbun), meaning 'newspaper'. 新(しん) + 聞(ぶん). Option 2 is correct.

• 1「しんむん」uses ム instead of ブ for the second character. This is a common misreading because 聞 can be read as ぶん in this compound, not むん.
• 3「しむん」is missing the ん of 新(しん) and uses an incorrect reading for 聞. This is a distractor with wrong syllables.
• 4「しぶん」drops the ん of 新(しん). While 聞 as ぶん is correct, the first character must be しん, not し.

• 新聞しんぶん — newspaper
• 新しん(あたら)しい — new
• 聞ぶん/き(く) — hear/listen (here used as a kanji compound element)

「安い」is read やすい (yasui), meaning 'cheap / inexpensive'. The sentence means 'This camera is cheap.' Option 2 is correct.

• 1「たかい」(高い) means 'expensive / tall', the opposite of what is written (安い). This is a plausible antonym distractor.
• 3「おもい」(重い) means 'heavy', an unrelated adjective that does not match the kanji 安い.
• 4「かるい」(軽い) means 'light (in weight)', another adjective that does not match the kanji 安い.

• 安やすい — cheap, inexpensive
• 高たかい — expensive, tall (antonym distractor)
• 重おもい — heavy
• 軽かるい — light (weight)

「外」is read そと (soto), meaning 'outside'. The sentence means 'The umbrella is outside.' Option 3 is correct.

• 1「いえ」(家) means 'house'. The kanji 外 does not read as いえ; this is a semantically related but incorrect distractor.
• 2「なか」(中) means 'inside', the antonym of 外(そと). This is a plausible opposite distractor.
• 4「にわ」(庭) means 'garden', a place that is outside, but it is not the reading of the kanji 外.

• 外そと — outside
• 中なか — inside (antonym distractor)
• 家いえ — house
• 庭にわ — garden

きませんか is the negative-question form of くる (to come), written 来ませんか. The sentence means 'Won't you come to my house?' The kanji 来 is correct.

• 2采ませんか uses 采 — not a valid kanji for this word; it appears in words like 采配.
• 3木ませんか uses 木 (tree) — wrong kanji, though it shares the reading き.
• 4未ませんか uses 未 (not-yet) — wrong kanji; also みませんか would be the negative-question of みる (to see), not くる.

• 来くる — to come
• 来きませんか — won't you come?

The underlined word あいました is the past tense of あう (会う), meaning 'to meet.' The sentence means 'Yesterday I met Tanaka-san.' Option 3, 会いました, is the correct kanji writing with the reading あいました.

• 1見ました is read みました, meaning 'saw/watched.' It does not match the reading あいました.
• 2書きました is read かきました, meaning 'wrote.' It does not match the reading あいました.
• 4話しました is read はなしました, meaning 'talked/spoke.' It does not match the reading あいました.

• 会あう — to meet
• 見みる — to see, to watch
• 書かく — to write
• 話はなす — to speak, to talk

The underlined word おなじ means 'same.' The sentence means 'I bought the same clothes as my younger sister.' Option 1, 同じ, is the correct kanji writing. 同 is the kanji for 'same,' and じ is the okurigana portion that remains in kana.

• 2回じ uses the kanji 回 (かい, 'times/round'), which is unrelated to the meaning 'same.' This is a lookalike distractor.
• 4固じ uses the kanji 固 (こ, 'solid/firm'), which is unrelated to the meaning 'same.' This is a lookalike distractor.

• 同おなじ — same
• 妹いもうと — younger sister
• 服ふく — clothes
• 買かう — to buy