Chapter 17: Health, Daily Life, and Responsibilities
Learn verbs for daily responsibilities, health-related vocabulary, and expressions for giving reasons and setting deadlines
In this chapter, you will learn verbs for remembering, forgetting, and daily responsibilities. You

Key topics:
- ・Memory and responsibility verbs
- ・Health and medical vocabulary
- ・Daily routines and personal care
- ・Time expressions with deadlines
- ・Giving reasons and explanations
- ・Work and business activities
Vocabulary
Conversation
Grammar Rules
Rule 1: Giving reasons with ですから
Use ですから to give a reason or cause for something, similar to
Rule 2: Deadlines with ~までに
Use 〜までに to express that an action must be completed by a specific deadline or point in time. It means
Rule 3: Approximate numbers with 2、3~
Use the sequence に、さん (2, 3) before a counter or time word to indicate an approximate small number, meaning
Rule 4: Na-adjectives in sentences
な-adjectives (also called adjectival nouns) need な when they come directly before a noun to modify it. When they end a sentence as the predicate, they just take です (polite) or だ (plain) — no な. This is the key difference from い-adjectives, which can modify nouns directly without any particle.
Exercises
Question 1
Complete the sentence meaning
かぜ ______ やすみます。
Question 2
Complete the sentence meaning
さむい ______ コートを きます。
Question 3
What does
Question 4
Complete the sentence meaning
ごじ ______ まちます。
Question 5
How do you say
Question 6
Complete the sentence meaning
______ くるかもしれません。
Question 7
Choose the correct way to say
Question 8
Complete the sentence meaning
これは ______ です。
Question 9
How do you say
Question 10
Complete the sentence meaning
あめ ______ うちに います。
Question 11
How do you say
Question 12
Complete the sentence meaning
______ かかります。
Question 13
How do you say
Question 14
Complete the sentence meaning
ごじ ______ うちに かえります。
Question 15
What does
Question 16
Complete the sentence meaning
たべすぎた ______、おなかが いたいです。
Question 17
How do you say
Question 18
Complete the sentence meaning
りんごを ______ かいました。
Question 19
What does
Question 20
Complete the sentence meaning
この としょかんは ______ です。