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Simple Japanese Sentences Posted by Ginny on Feb 11, 2009 in Grammar This is going to be a great post for beginners of Japanese. Today I’m going to show you how to construct simple sentences. Let’s start with a simple sentece such as, “I am Takeshi”. To say “I” you would...
English has a relatively fixed word order. Movement from the default position is used in questions and sometimes as a means of emphasis, but never in simple declarative sentences. For example, the verb “chased” takes a subject and one object, the subject is the chaser, and the object is...
In these sentences, 私 (わたし, I) and ペン (pen) are marked by は, making all of the information that follows directly pertaining to 私 and ペン, respectively. が(subject marker) がindicates as well as emphasizes the subject of the sentence, the one performing the action. In addition...
Please note: These examples come from a combination of my own authorship, and various snippets from the Tanaka Corpus of example sentences. They may not be relied upon for accuracy, as in some cases they were not written by native Japanese writers; they are intended to illustrate their particu...
In the example sentences above, you can see that the sentence is in a pretty wacky order! The first sentence is OVS (object:寿司を), (verb:作っている), (subject:お父さんが). By placing the subject at the end of the sentence, it starts off sounding likesheis making the sushi, unt...
Usage: が(ga) and だが (daga) are almost the same, but が (ga) is used to conjoin separate sentences with a comma, and だが (daga) is often used at the beginning of a sentence. Example: お金はあるが、旅行する時間がない。 O-kane wa aru ga, ryokō suru jikan ga nai. I ha...
Let’s practice these pronouns using the example sentences below: My name is Frank. What’s your name? 私の名前はフランクです. あなたの名前は何ですか? Watashi no namae wa Frank desu. Anata no namae wa nan desu ka? That person was kind enough to lend me fifty yen. あの方が親切...
there is a subset of nouns calleddaimeishithat unlike true pronouns take modifiers and do not constitute a closed class (newdaimeishican be added and old ones can go out of use). Personaldaimeishiare seldom used because Japanese sentences do not always require explicit subjects, and because...
“I”). In addition to the regular passive of the type found in English, transitive verbs also produce adversative passive sentences—e.g.,Boku-wa Hanako-ni piano-o hik-are-ta(literally, I-[topic] Hanako-[dative] piano-[accusative] play-[passive-past]) ‘I suffered from Hanako’s ...