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N4 lessons
Study N4 Japanese grammar lessons that build on beginner foundations and prepare you for longer graded reading.
N4 lessons reinforce the grammar and sentence connections that help lower-intermediate readers stay in Japanese longer.
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60 N4 lessons
Open full catalogueLearn 〜たばかり to describe actions that feel recent from the speaker’s point of view, even when the exact clock time may vary.
Understand direct commands, softer casual requests, and strong prohibitions in speech, signs, and manga-style dialogue.
Use ばかり to express repeated excess, strong concentration, or “nothing but” in everyday contexts.
Use しか with a negative predicate to express “only” with stronger emphasis than だけ.
Use だけ to limit quantity, choice, or action in a neutral way.
Use ほど to compare degree, especially in the common N4 pattern A は B ほど ... ない.
Learn みたいです for soft similarity and informal-sounding inference in everyday Japanese.
Use 〜そうです to describe how something appears based on what you can see or sense right now.
Learn how って works as a casual quotation marker in conversation and everyday informal writing.
Learn how の can replace an understood noun, creating natural expressions like 'the red one' or 'the one I bought yesterday.'
Learn the conditional ば and how it expresses hypothetical conditions, especially in judgments and general statements.
Learn how the conditional と expresses automatic results, regular sequences, and general truths.