N5 grammar

〜にあります

niarimasu

Where something exists

Formation

With あります and います, に marks the place a thing or a person is. The frame is place に thing が exists, and it is stable enough to lean on while you are building sentences slowly. Use it for what is in a room, on a desk, or near the station.

Examples

〜にあります is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. How much money do you have in the bank?

  2. My school has a band.

  3. There is a car in front of the building.

  4. This house has six rooms.

  5. There used to be an elementary school here.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.