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Simple Japanese Sentence

Posted 2006-03-22 23:06:06 | Comments (2)

As you know, a word order of English sentence is "Subject + verb + object", however, the order of Japanese sentence is "Subject + object + verb" and the subject is often omitted. This is kind of a big difference and confusing. For example, EN: I like dogs. JP: watashi wa inu ga suki desu. (watashi=I, inu=dog(s), suki=like) EN: I read a book yesterday. JP: kinou hon wo yonda. (kinou=yesterday, hon=book, yonda=read(past))

hi, question: why "kinou hon WO yonda" and not "kinou hon GA yonda"? Arigatou gozaimasu.

Posted by luca74it Mar 23rd 2006

konnichiwa luca Wo and Ga are very tricky. that's really hard to answer >.< basically, Wo comes between an object word and a verb. (e.g. Hon wo yomu. Gomi wo suteru) Ga and Wa comes between a subject word and an object word (or a verb). (e.g. watashi wa hashiru. ) i think "suki(like)" and "kirai(don't like, hate)" are special. The object for those verbs can come with Ga. (e.g. watashi wa inu ga suki. kare wa neko ga kirai)

Posted by Suzu Mar 23rd 2006

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