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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.
Check your understanding
1. Where does Aya find the wallet?
- On an empty station bench
- Inside the police box
- On the train
Answer: On an empty station bench — Wallet-02 says Aya sees the brown wallet on a bench where no one is sitting.
2. What does Aya do after no owner can be found nearby?
- She opens the wallet.
- She leaves it on the bench.
- She takes it unopened to the police box.
Answer: She takes it unopened to the police box. — Wallet-05 says she does not open it, and wallet-06–07 show her taking it to the nearby police box with her father.
3. Which detail helps confirm the wallet belongs to the older woman?
- A small star
- A train ticket
- Aya’s name
Answer: A small star — Aya describes the small star in wallet-12; the woman correctly describes it in wallet-17 before the wallet is returned.
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