📄️ Connecting Two Nouns With の
In Japanese, a common grammatical construct is noun(A) の noun(B). This construct is similar to the English apostrophe and can used to imply possession of one noun by another noun.
📄️ Interrogatives and Particles
Some of the most common interrogatives in Japanese are:
📄️ Making Questions with か
The kana か is an exceptionally useful one, and one that can transform even the most mundane statement into a provocative question.
📄️ The Particle が
が is one of the most important particles in Japanese and is used to mark the subject of a sentence. It is closely related to, and often confused with, the particle は, which usually marks the topic of a sentence.
📄️ The Particle で
で has a number of uses in Japanese, but it is most frequently used following nouns that state where an action took place, or to explain means and methods.
📄️ The Particle と
The particle と has several uses in Japanese, from acting as a conjunction to allowing comparisons and contrasts to be made. This article introduces some of the uses of this crucial particle.
📄️ The Particle に
に is one of the most commonly used particles in Japanese and has a wide range of uses including denoting time, location, destination and changes of state. Here we introduce some of the most common uses of the particle に.
📄️ The Particle は
は is the particle used to mark the topic of a sentence. In speech, it is used to introduce previously unmentioned topics and to bring up new ideas that might otherwise seem out of context. In the most literal sense, by using は you are saying 'we're talking about this now'.
📄️ The Particle へ
へ is a particle used to indicate direction or destination.
📄️ The Particle も
The particle も has a wide range of uses, but is most commonly used to mean 'also', 'as well', 'too' or 'neither'. This article introduces a few of the uses of も.
📄️ The Particle を
を is used in combination with direct objects, nouns used to perform an action. を serves no other purpose, so if you see or hear it used in a sentence, you can assume that it follows the direct object of the sentence.
📄️ The Various Forms of です
What's the Meaning of です