Japanese sentence structure - I, sushi, eat (subject, object, verb) English sentence structure - I, eat, sushi (subject, verb, object) 7'g Desu - copula in grammar terms It functions as the verb "to be" and is used to mean am, is, are, etc. ?????????? - I am a student ???????? - This is cheap ????????????? - Mr/Ms Yamashita is a teacher ????????????? - Mr/Ms Kim is a Korean Particles are a class of words in Japanese that attach themselves to phrases to indicate how the phrases relate to the rest of the sentence (# - ha (Subject Particle) ?????? - I am a student It is returned as ? but pronounced wa instead of ha. (As compared to ???(??)) ???????? 34 -567 7?? - My telephone number is 34-5677 Useful terms ??????????? – is today Wednesday? ??????? - yes that's right ????????? - no it isn't (L)and z z both mean yes, but the latter is more conversational and relaxed. In a casual situation, ? k is used 1` - ka (Subject Particle) To form a question, the particle /> is added to the end of a statement ?????????? – What's your name? ??(Yamada)???????? ?- Is Yamada-san a teacher? Double consonants in hiragana ???-zasshi (magazine) ??? - sakka (writer)
??? happa (leaf) Small tsu 2 doubles the consonants it precedes ????(clear) ????(failure) ???(three) ????????? Are doubled by placing an ? before them, as in ????? Long 'o' sound in Japanese is often formed by adding } to an 'o' character ???? (return) ??? (hat) ???? (welcome) Written as 'oo' as seen in genki textbooks Occasionally written with another ???? (big) ????·?? (Osaka) Particle 0) Main noun comes second ????????? – student of Japanese language ???????? - my teacher ??????????? - mary's friend
????????????? Whose bag is this? ???