Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 13 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v11b — did somebody do it, or did it happen?
about 12 minutes

After this lesson you can
- Choose を for つける and 消す, and が for 開く and 閉まる.
- Use が with 降る, 咲く, 吹く and 差す, and say why.
Words this lesson teaches
- つける
- to switch on, to attach — を, because you do it; its off is 消す
- 消す
- to switch off, to erase — を; and w07's 消しゴム is its stem plus ゴム
- 開く
- to open, by itself — が; the one you do is 開ける, which no lesson teaches
- 閉まる
- to close, by itself — が; the one you do is 閉める
- 無くす
- to lose something — を, because you did it; its が half 無くなる comes at N4
- かかる
- to take, of time or money — が; 時間が かかります
- かける
- to make a call, to hang — を, and the same かける as v03's 眼鏡を かける
- 違う
- to differ, to be wrong — が, and 違います alone means that is not right
- 渡す
- to hand over — を for the thing, に for the person
- 貸す
- to lend — you give it out; borrowing is 借りる, the other direction
- 返す
- to give back — and w16c's 返事 shares the 返
- 売る
- to sell — and w11a's 売り場 is this verb's stem plus 場
- 降る
- to fall, of rain or snow — が, and w05's 降り出す is this verb plus 出す
- 咲く
- to bloom — が; used of flowers and of nothing else
- 吹く
- to blow — が for the wind, を for a whistle or a flute you blow
- 差す
- to shine in, of sunlight — が; and かさを 差す is putting up an umbrella
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.