N5 grammar

〜に(時)

ni

Pinning an action to a time

Formation

に fixes an action to a point on the clock or the calendar: at seven, on Monday, in March. It goes with times you could put a number on, which is why 今日 and 明日 normally go bare. Reach for it wherever English would say at, on or in before a specific time.

Examples

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

  1. What time do you usually have breakfast?

  2. It may rain in the evening.

  3. I'll be sixteen in September.

  4. I go to church every Sunday.

  5. The store is closed Mondays.

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.