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も also / too: Meaning & Examples
mo · JLPT N5
も means “also / too”. It is a JLPT N5 pattern, shown below in the sentences where real Japanese writers use it, with furigana on every word.
も (also / too) in real sentences
Each one is quoted from a published Japanese text in this library and links to the story it came from. Some use older spellings, or break off where the sentence carried on. They are transcribed exactly as their authors wrote them.
も replaces は or が and means 'too, as well'. Repeating it across two items — つぎのあさも、そのつぎのあさも — is how Japanese says 'and the next one, and the one after that'.
くつしたも長靴も、もうかわいていた。
— from One Line of Boot Prints (N5)
つぎのあさも、そのつぎのあさも、いすの上にふうとうがありました。
— from Three Envelopes (N5)
足もぬれていた。
— from Every Morning at the River (N5)
その本も借りました。
— from The Gap on the Shelf (N5)
Appears in 7 of 379 texts in our library.
蔵書The texts
7 texts in the library use も
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川の石
Every Morning at the River
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本と本の間
The Gap on the Shelf
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おれの屋台
Never a Day Off
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ストーブの前で
One Line of Boot Prints
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三つのふうとう
Three Envelopes
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店のまど
Wait Here
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オヤカン ト オナベ ト フライパン ノ ケンクワ
The Quarrel of the Pot, the Pan, and the Frying Pan
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解説Background
Where this も explanation comes from
も sits at JLPT N5 in the 302-point taxonomy every text in this library is tagged against. Each text is read for the patterns it contains, which is what lets this page list every text that uses も and pull its example sentences out of them.
The example sentences were not written to demonstrate the rule. They are quoted from published Japanese texts in this library (One Line of Boot Prints and Three Envelopes among them), and each one links back to the story it came from, so you can read the sentence where it actually happened.
質問Questions
も: questions & answers
What does も mean?
も means “also / too”. It is a JLPT N5 pattern, and the example sentences on this page show it doing that job in published Japanese rather than in a constructed example.
What JLPT level is も?
も is normally introduced around JLPT N5. The texts listed on this page span several levels, because a pattern taught at N5 keeps turning up in writing well above and below it.
How do I get も to stick?
Read it rather than review it. Meeting も in 7 different stories attaches it to 7 contexts you remember, where reviewing the rule 7 times attaches it to nothing. Every text listed here is free to read in full.
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