N5 grammar

〜に(方向)

ni

The destination or the recipient

Formation

に marks where a motion verb is heading, or who ends up on the receiving end. Going to school, getting on a train, handing something to a friend all take it. Think of the arrow's landing point rather than the path it travelled.

Examples

〜に(方向) is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. My father has gone to America.

  2. I go skiing very often.

  3. At night, we usually go bowling.

  4. I wish to visit Egypt someday.

  5. You have come at an opportune time.

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.