Japanese Grammar Exercises: Relative Clauses with 「か」

Relative Clauses with か

Before starting the exercise for relative clauses with 「か」, please clarify any doubts you may have about the grammatical rules by referring to your grammar guidebook or dictionary. The Instantaneous Composition Method requires you to compose sentences with the target sentence pattern(s) over and over in order to use them almost effortlessly. You should already have the necessary knowledge.

Reference
Tae Kim's Guide - The Question Marker

Instantaneous Composition Exercise for Relative Clauses with 「か」

This is not a translation exercise. This is the Instantaneous Composition Exercise. As if a reflexive action, try to create an equivalent Japanese sentence shortly after reading an English script. Try not to think for more than three seconds.

Natural Speed with Pauses

English and Hidden Japanese Scripts

Do (you) know when I came?
私わたしがいつ来きたか知しっていますか?
(I) didn’t know when (my) girlfriend cried.
彼女かのじょがいつ泣ないたか知しりませんでした。
(I) forgot what (I) ate.
何なにを食たべたか忘わすれました。
(I) remember what (I) said.
何なにを言いったか覚おぼえています。
(I will) answer whether it’s dangerous (or not).
それが危き険けんか(どうか)答こたえます。
(I will) decide whether (I will) buy (it) (or not).
買かうか決きめます。
(I) taught (the person) who won.
誰だれが勝かったのか教おしえました。
(I) asked who laughed.
誰だれが笑わらったのか聞ききました。
(I) wrote where (I) met Ishii-san.
どこで石いし井いさんに会あったか書かきました。
(I will) investigate where Nozaki-san died.
どこで野の崎ざきさんが死しんだか調しらべます。

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