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N4 graded Japanese story
写真部の曇り空
Finding Photographs Under a Cloudy Sky
20 sentences · about 8 minutes
N4 · 20 sentences
Start reading · 8 min left
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Reinforce the reading
Notice what the story just taught you
Concrete visual events keep the story approachable while N4 learners meet expectation, accidental-result, comparison, and goal structures such as はずでした, 〜てしまう, より, and 〜ないように.
Key words in context
- 水たまりみずたまり
- puddle
- 逆ささかさ
- upside down; inverted
- 映るうつる
- to be reflected; to appear in an image
- 揺れるゆれる
- to shake; to sway
- 飾るかざる
- to decorate; to display
What to notice
Sentence 曇り空-02
〜はずでした shows an expectation that changed
撮るはずでした says Mika expected or intended to photograph sunlight, setting up the contrast with the gray sky.
Sentence 曇り空-09
〜てしまう marks an unwanted result
入ってしまいます conveys that Mika's shoe accidentally ends up in the photograph.
Sentence 曇り空-13
〜ないように expresses a goal
空を入れないように means she frames the shot so as not to include the sky.
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