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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
N5 · 20 sentences
Start reading · 7 min left
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Notice what the story just taught you
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
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.
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.
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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