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N5 graded Japanese story
交番にとどいた財布
Returning a Lost Wallet at the Police Box
20 sentences · about 7 minutes
N5 · 20 sentences
Start reading · 7 min left
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Reinforce the reading
Notice what the story just taught you
The story follows one clear sequence using polite ます forms, everyday station and public-service vocabulary, simple location phrases, direct questions, and basic adjective linking.
Key words in context
- 財布さいふ
- wallet
- 持ち主もちぬし
- owner
- 交番こうばん
- neighborhood police box
- 様子ようす
- appearance or identifying details
- 返すかえす
- to return something
What to notice
Sentence wallet-03
Two related actions with て
持ち主を探して、まわりを見ます links Aya’s goal—finding the owner—to the action she takes, looking around.
Sentence wallet-08
どこで asks where an action happened
The officer asks どこで見つけましたか; で marks the place where Aya found the wallet.
Sentence wallet-12
Joining identifying details
茶色くて links the first description, 'brown,' to the second identifying feature, 小さな星があります.
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