This post will give you over 100 JLPT Grammar N4 structures with detail explanation (how to use) and example sentences.
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| てよかった (te yokatta): I’m glad that… |
てすみません (tesumimasen): I’m sorry for… |
| てしまう (te shimau): To do something by accident, to finish completely |
ておく (teoku): To do something in advance |
| てもらう (te morau): To get somebody to do something |
ても (temo): Even; even if; even though |
| てみる (temiru): Try to (do something) |
てくる (te kuru): To come to, to become, to continue, to do… and come back |
| てくれる (te kureru): To do something for me or somebody’s sake |
でございます (de gozaimasu): To be (the polite form of です) |
| ようになる (you ni naru): To reach the point that, to come to be that, to turn into |
ていただけませんか (te itadakemasen ka): Can you please; could i get |
| ていた (te ita): Was doing something (past continuous) |
ているところ (te iru tokoro): In the process of doing |
| ていく (te iku): To go on, to continue, to start |
てほしい (tehoshii): I need you to… |
| てある (te aru): Something is done; something has been done |
てあげる (te ageru): To do for |
| たところ (ta tokoro): Just finished doing; was just doing |
たり～たり (tari~tari): Do such things like |
| たらどうですか (tara dou desu ka): Why don’t you… |
ように/ような (you ni/you na): As; like; just as; as though |
| でも (demo): …or something |
たら (tara): If… then; after; when |
| たがる (tagaru): Want to |
たばかり (ta bakari): Just finished; something just ended/occurred |
| そうだ (sou da) – 2: Look like; appear; seem; feel like |
そうだ (sou da) – 1: People say that; it is said that; i heard that |
| そうに / そうな (sou ni/sou na): Seem; look like |
それでも (sore demo): But still; and yet; even so |
| そんなに (sonna ni): So much; so; like that |
しか~ない (shika~nai): Only; nothing but |
| ようだ (you da): It seems that, it appears that, it looks like |
~し (~shi): And |
| 出す (dasu): To suddenly begin; to suddenly appear; …out |
さすが (sasuga): As one would expect; even |
| させられる (saserareru): To be made to do something |
させる (saseru): Make/let somebody do something; |
| さ (sa): Nominalizer for adjectives |
らしい (rashii): Seem like; look like; i heard that; it appears that |
| られる (rareru) – 2: Passive voice |
られる (rareru) – 1: Be able to do something |
| 終わる (owaru): To finish…; to end |
予定だ (yotei da): Plan to, intend to |
| おきに (oki ni): Repeated at intervals; every |
お～になる (o~ni naru): To do something (honorific) |
| だけで (dake de): Just by; just by doing |
お～ください (o~kudasai): Please do (honorific) |
| のように/のような (no you ni/no you na): Like; similar to |
のに (noni) – 2: Although; in spite of; even though |
| のに (noni) – 1: In order to |
の中で (no naka de): In; among |
| に見える (ni mieru): To look; to seem; to appear |
にくい (nikui): Difficult to…; hard to… |
| より (yori): Than; more than |
に気がつく (ni ki ga tsuku): To notice; to realize |
| なさる (nasaru): To do (the polite form of する) |
なさい (nasai): Do… (command) |
| 場合は (baai wa): If; in the case; in the event of |
なら (nara): If; if it is the case that; as for |
| なくてもいい (nakute mo ii): Don’t have to |
なくてはいけない/なくてはならない: Must do, have to do |
| なければならない (nakereba naranai): Must do something |
ないで (naide): Without doing…; don’t |
| ながら (nagara): While; during; as |
やすい (yasui): Easy to; likely to…; have a tendency to… |
| など (nado): Such as, things like, the likes of |
みたいに / みたいな (mitai ni / mitai na): Like, similar to |
| みたいだ (mitai da): -like; sort of; similar to; resembling |
までに (made ni): By; by the time |
| ば (ba): If… then (ば conditional) |
ことができる (koto ga dekiru): Can; to be able to |
| こと (koto) – 1: **Verb nominalizer |
かしら (kashira): I wonder |
| かた (kata): how to (the way to do something) |
かな (kana): I wonder, should i?, is it?, i wish that (with a negative), i hope that |
| 続ける (tsuzukeru): To continue to |
かもしれない (kamoshirenai): Might; maybe; probably |
| かどうか (ka dou ka): Whether or not |
じゃないか (janai ka): Right?; isn’t it? |
| いたす (itasu): To do (the polite form of する) |
た後で (ta ato de): After; later |
| いらっしゃる (irassharu): To be; to come; to go |
欲しい (hoshii): To want something; to be in need of |
| 必要がある (hitsuyou ga aru): Need, it is necessary to |
必要 (hitsuyou): Need; necessary |
| がする (ga suru): Smell; hear; taste |
はずがない (hazu ga nai): Cannot be; it’s impossible that |
| はずだ (hazu da): It must be, it should be |
始める (hajimeru): To start…; to begin to… |
| ございます (gozaimasu): To be, to exist |
ごろ (goro): Around; about |
| 全然～ない (zenzen~nai): (not) at all |
と思う (to omou): I think…; you think… |
| と見える (to mieru): It seems that… |
ようと思う (you to omou): I think i will… (i’m thinking of doing…) |
| ところ (tokoro): Be just about to do something; be on the verge of doing something |
と聞いた (to kiita): I heard… |
| とき (toki): When |
とか～とか (toka~toka): Among other things; such as |
| と言われている (to iwarete iru): It is said that… |
と言ってもいい (to itte mo ii): You could say; you might say |
| と～と, どちらが (to ~ to, dochira ga): Which one… |
がる (garu): To show signs of; to feel; to think; to behave as if |
| と (to) – 2: if, when, and |
あまり～ない (amari~nai): Not very; not much |
| ようにする (you ni suru): To try to, to make sure that |
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