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N5 graded Japanese story

電気が消えた晩ごはん

A Family Dinner by Flashlight

20 sentences · about 7 minutes

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Twenty short chronological sentences use polite present forms, concrete family vocabulary, counters, adjective contrasts, and accessible N5 patterns such as ので, まで, and ことができません.

Key words in context

嵐あらし
storm
電気でんき
electricity; the lights
かいちゅう電灯かいちゅうでんとう
flashlight
影かげ
shadow
途中とちゅう
in the middle of; during

What to notice

  1. Sentence lights-out-02

    The whole situation changes with 全部

    突然 signals the sudden event, while 電気が全部消えます says that all the lights—not merely one—go out.

  2. Sentence lights-out-09

    二本目 means the second one

    本 counts the flashlights, 目 turns the count into an ordinal, and 持って links holding the flashlight with carrying the plates.

  3. Sentence lights-out-19

    まで marks the endpoint

    晩ごはんが終わるまで sets dinner’s end as the limit; the negative つけません means they keep the television off until then.

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