N5 Vocabulary · Test 55

がっこう is written 学校. The sentence means 'Satō-san was absent from school today.' Option 1 学校 is correct: 学 (がく) + 校 (こう) with the く of がく dropping to give がっこう.

• 2字校 uses 字 (じ, character) instead of 学 (がく, study). Not a real word.
• 3字枚 uses both wrong kanji: 字 (じ) and 枚 (まい, counter for flat objects). Not a real word.
• 4学枚 uses 学 correctly but 枚 (まい) instead of 校 (こう). Not a real word.

• 学校がっこう — school
• やすんだ — was absent/rested (past of やすむ)

やすんだ is written 休んだ. The verb 休む (やすむ, to rest/be absent) has the ま-row stem; drop む and add んだ for the plain past: 休んだ. Option 4 is correct.

• 1体すんだ uses 体 (からだ, body) instead of 休 (やす, rest) and adds an extra す. Incorrect.
• 2体んだ uses 体 (からだ) instead of 休 (やす). Incorrect kanji.
• 3休すんだ uses the correct kanji 休 but inserts an extra す. The correct form is 休んだ, not 休すんだ.

• 休やすんだ — was absent/rested (past of 休む)

The sentence asks 'What kind of party is this?' The underlined word なん is written in kanji as 何, meaning 'what.' The correct answer is option 2.

• 1同 (どう) means 'same,' and is not read as なん.
• 3向 (む/こう) means 'direction,' and is not read as なん.
• 4伺 (うかが) means 'to visit/to ask (humble),' and is not read as なん.

• 何なん — what
• パーティー（ぱーてぃー） — party

The word being tested is パーティー (party), written in katakana. The correct spelling uses パ (pa, with a handakuten), a long vowel mark ー, and the small ティ (ti) combination: パーティー. Option 4 matches this exactly.

• 1ベーティー uses ベ (be) instead of パ (pa) — the wrong consonant from the start.
• 2バーティー uses バ (ba, voiced) instead of パ (pa, unvoiced). The word 'party' starts with a 'p' sound, not a 'b' sound.
• 3パーディー uses ディ (di) instead of ティ (ti). The second syllable of 'party' is 'ti', not 'di'.

• パーティー（ぱーてぃー） — party

The sentence means 'It is raining, so I won't go.' The word あめ here means 'rain,' and the correct kanji is 雨. Option 3 is correct.

• 1冊 is read さつ and means 'counter for books/volumes' — unrelated to あめ.
• 2両 is read りょう and means 'both / tael (currency)' — unrelated to あめ.
• 4再 is read さい and means 'again / repeat' — unrelated to あめ.

• 雨あめ — rain
• 降ふる — to fall (rain, snow)

The options are kanji for はは (mother). 母 is read はは, meaning 'mother'. The sentence means '(I) climbed a mountain with my mother.' Note: the underline in the stem appears to be on the wrong word (やま instead of はは); see issues.

• 1姆 is a Chinese character for 'female tutor/aunt', not used in Japanese for はは.
• 2卅 means 'thirty' and is not read はは.
• 3奶 means 'milk/breast' in Chinese, not used for はは in Japanese.

• 母はは — mother
• 山やま — mountain

やま is written 山, meaning 'mountain'. The sentence means '(I) climbed a mountain with my mother.'

• 1上 is read うえ/じょう/かみ etc., meaning 'up/above', not やま.
• 3止 is read とめる/とまる/し, meaning 'stop', not やま.
• 4凸 is read とつ, meaning 'convex', not やま.

• 山やま — mountain
• のぼる — to climb

こんしゅう is written 今週, meaning 'this week'. 今 (こん) = this, 週 (しゅう) = week.

• 2今過 is not a real word; 過 is read か/す, used in 過去 (かこ) etc.
• 3令週 is not a real word; 令 is read れい.
• 4令過 is not a real word; distractor combining wrong kanji.

• 今週こんしゅう — this week

てんき means 'weather' and is written 天気. 天 (てん) means 'sky/heaven' and 気 (き) means 'spirit/air/mood'; together they form the standard word for weather.

• 2天汽 uses 汽 instead of 気. 汽 appears in words like 汽車 (きしゃ, steam train) and is not the correct kanji here.
• 3矢気 is not a real word; 矢 (や) means 'arrow' and has nothing to do with weather.
• 4矢汽 is also not a real word; it combines the wrong kanji 矢 with the wrong kanji 汽.

• 天気てんき — weather

ちいさい is the adjective 'small', written 小さい. 小 (ちい/しょう) means 'small', and さい is the okurigana that makes it the i-adjective ちいさい.

• 1小い is not valid Japanese; the correct okurigana for ちいさい is 小さい, not just 小い.
• 3少し (すこし) means 'a little/a bit' and is an adverb, not the adjective ちいさい.
• 4少ない (すくない) means 'few/not enough' and describes quantity, not physical size.

• 小ちいさい — small
• 少すこし — a little, a bit
• 少すくない — few, scarce