物語
ものがたり · monogatari · JLPT N3 · noun
narrative
📖 物語 = thing + talk: a story is talk about things
物 (mono) means thing and 語 (gatari, from kataru) means to tell or recount. So a monogatari is the telling of things, as in the Genji Monogatari, the classic Tale of Genji.