JLPT N4 Grammar: 60 Essential Example Sentences

Browse 60 essential JLPT N4 grammar examples covering quotation, embedded questions, noun modification, explanatory んです, experience, and plans, with reviewed furigana, English translations, and notes. The complete collection contains 300 sentences.

JLPT N4 grammar connects basic clauses into richer statements: you report thoughts, embed questions, describe nouns, explain circumstances, and talk about experience or plans.

These first 60 examples from the complete 300-sentence collection introduce those structures through short, usable sentences with reviewed Japanese and furigana.

300 Core JLPT N4 Grammar Sentences

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1. Plain Forms and Quotation: と思う and という

10 phrases

Express opinions and report speech with the correct plain forms.

2. Embedded Questions: か and かどうか

10 phrases

Place who, what, when, how, and whether questions inside larger sentences.

3. Noun Modification and Verb Nominalization

10 phrases

Describe nouns with clauses and turn actions into noun phrases with の.

4. Explaining Background and Reasons: んです

10 phrases

Ask for and provide context, motives, and gentle lead-ins.

5. Experience and Representative Lists

10 phrases

Talk about past experience and list typical actions or alternating states.

6. Intentions and Plans

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Distinguish つもり, 予定, and volitional forms for different kinds of plans.

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