Spoken Japanese Contractions and Listening: 60 Real-Life Sentences

Browse 60 real-life Japanese sentences featuring てる, てた, てない, とく, and related contractions, with reviewed furigana, English translations, and listening notes. The complete collection contains 300 sentences.

Everyday Japanese often sounds unfamiliar even when you know the underlying grammar, because common forms are shortened and particles may disappear in relaxed speech.

These first 60 examples from the complete 300-sentence collection train the high-frequency changes ている→てる, ていた→てた, ていない→てない, and ておく→とく through complete, natural sentences.

300 Spoken Japanese Contractions and Listening Sentences

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1. ている→てる: Actions, States, and Habits

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Recognize てる in ongoing actions, resulting states, and recurring habits.

2. ていた/ていない→てた/てない

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Hear contracted past-progressive and negative forms without losing their time reference.

3. ておく→とく and でおく→どく

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Recognize preparations and maintained states expressed through とく and どく.

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