LEARN + JAPANESE / 21 of 186 JLPT N5
Because から
Your friend asks why you’re leaving early: 明日早いから. から gives a direct reason for what you’re saying or doing. It’s a clear, everyday way to explain yourself.
Because it's difficult, I study Japanese every day.
Because I like Japanese, I study it every day.
In Real Life
から states a reason as a plain fact, more direct than ので, which softens the same idea into something more like a shared, polite explanation. から works fine in casual speech and in giving a blunt, matter-of-fact reason.
No, I won't eat it. Because I don't like it.
Hint · 힌트
から can also stand alone at the very end of a sentence, added on after the fact as an afterthought explanation, “because,” almost like English tacking “because I said so” onto the end of a sentence.
It's because I like Japanese cars.
Hint · 힌트
からです directly answers a どうして (why) question, naming the reason as the entire predicate of the sentence, a clean, complete way to answer “why” on its own.
In casual speech, sentence-final もの or もん can give a reason with a personal or explanatory tone: 今日は行けないもん, “I can’t go today, you see.” In a more careful explanation or apology, plain-form + ものですから or もので softens the reason: 道が混んでいたものですから, “because the roads were busy.” These forms can sound like an excuse, so use them when the context supports that tone.
Because the check took longer, my reply was delayed.
Vocabulary
| Japanese | English |
|---|---|
| sleepy | |
| to come home late | |
| to finish, end | |
| happy, glad | |
| boring | |
| vegetarian | |
| to oversleep | |
| refrigerator | |
| environment | |
| kind, gentle | |
| problem, issue | |
| major (field of study) | |
| why | |
| reason | |
| directly | |
| clearly | |
| to explain | |
| to decline, refuse | |
| cause | |
| result |
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