JLPT N4 particle practice
Answer two N4-level Japanese particle questions here, with no account. Choose the particle that fits and you immediately see whether it was right, which one was correct, the function it performs, and why.
By N4 the sentences are longer, so the particle has to be chosen from context rather than from the two words next to it.
Try two N4 particles questions
Two questions, four options each. You see the correct answer and an explanation as soon as you choose. Nothing is saved.
What this practices
Each question removes one particle from a Japanese sentence and asks which of four belongs there. The answer depends on the function the sentence needs — a source, a means, a comparison, a reason — and we name that function once you have answered.
At N4 the same particle frequently appears in the question's wrong options doing a different job, so recognizing the function is what separates a decision from a coin flip.
- で for means and method versus に for destination
- から and まで for source and endpoint
- より for comparison
- と for quotation and for accompaniment
- の for possession and for modification
What changes at N4
N4 sentences carry more than one clause, and particles start marking relationships between whole ideas rather than between two words. That is why the context needed to answer moves further from the blank.
It is also the level where particles you learned as a single translation split apart — で is not only 'at', and と is not only 'and'.
How the sample works
- Press Start practice. Two N4 particle questions are drawn at random, usually testing two different particle functions.
- Read the whole sentence, then choose one of the four particles. Furigana is on by default and can be switched off.
- The answer is graded on our side. You see the verdict, the correct particle, the function tested, and a short explanation.
- After both questions you see how you did on this sample. Nothing is stored, and you can draw another.
Why this is a useful N4 check
Naming the function the blank asked for is what stops a particle from being memorized as a single English word.
Every active N4 particle question in our catalogue carries a written explanation.
No account, nothing stored, and no signup step before the explanation.
Keep practicing at N4
N4 grammar practice covers the patterns those particles connect — て-form chains, conditionals, and reported speech.
Particles practice at other levels
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