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Check your N5 foundations Check particles, adjectives, て, た and ない forms before continuing.
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1. 書く → plain negative Answer and explanation 書かない
「書かない」 Godan く changes to か. A plain negative describes not doing the action; a potential negative describes being unable to do it.
2. 飲む → plain affirmative past Answer and explanation 飲んだ
「飲んだ」 む belongs to the んだ group. The affirmative past ends in た or だ, rather than the connecting て or で.
3. 学生 → plain affirmative predicate Answer and explanation 学生だ
「学生だ」 Plain affirmative noun predicates take だ.
4. 高い → plain negative Answer and explanation 高くない
「高くない」 Replace final い with くない.
5. 買う → て form Answer and explanation 買って
「買って」 う changes to って. This is a connecting form; it does not make a sentence past by itself.
6. 部屋に猫が（ ）。 います
あります
です
Answer and explanation います
A cat takes います in the basic existence pattern. People and animals use います in this pattern; ordinary objects and plants use あります.
7. 家（ ）本を読みます。 I read at home. で
に
を
Answer and explanation で
で marks the activity location. Choose the particle for this phrase’s role, rather than translating every English “at” the same way.
8. 本（ ）読みます。 を
に
で
Answer and explanation を
を marks the object read.
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