物語
Kana: ものがたり
story
Example sentence
母は毎晩、物語を読んでくれます。
はははまいばん、ものがたりをよんでくれます。
My mother reads me a story every night.
What 物語 means
物語 (ものがたり) is a Japanese word meaning “story”. It belongs to the Things & Objects topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.