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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

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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