Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Japanese particle (part 1)

Hello again, konnichiwa. We will learn about particle for today which this element doesn't exist in all languages I know. Some languages have a term of active and passive sentences, that determine that who is a topic marker in a sentences. But in Japanese they use particle to determine that. Here are some example of particle that can be found easily in a sentences: は が を へ に の で and many more. And particle is located at the end of a word or subject.

Particle "wa" (は) marks the topic of the sentence and the particle "ga" (が) marks the subject of the sentence. I'll give you one example:

"私  (は)  アニメ  (が)  大好き" (watashi wa anime ga daisuki)

example above means "I love anime", 私 is watashi (I) while アニメ  is anime that is written in katakana because anime is a foreign word (short form of animation) and 大好き is daisuki means love. particle "wo" (or "o") marks the direct object of a Japanese sentence.

私 (は) 本 (を) 三冊 読んだ (watashi wa hon o sansatsu yonda)

本= book, 三冊= three books and 読んだ= read. Other particle will be discuss in next chapter, if you have more example for above particle please put a comment, thank you.

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