Can someone please give a simple example of a direct object acting as the topic of a sentence?
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3I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's a "homework" question. – istrasci Oct 11 '16 at 20:47
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Voting to close a question you suspect to be homework isn't the StackExchange way. See meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/334822/… for more info. – lfalin Oct 11 '16 at 22:26
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2「宿題は自分でやりなさい！」とか・・ – Chocolate♦ Oct 12 '16 at 2:29
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1istrasci ... assuming "homework" is unwise! The question was asked by a 67-year-old retired individual, learning on his own! Thank you Ifalin! And thanks to all for answers! – Lou Oct 13 '16 at 12:43
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本をば買いました。
I bought the book.
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（東北で聞いた言い方ですけれども。）
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There is an old combination of using は immediately after を, essentially topicalizing the object phrase. This was more prominent in older times, and it has largely disappeared from modern standard Japanese, persisting mostly in dialect. When I lived in the Tōhoku region (the northeast of Honshū), I would hear this very occasionally -- mostly used by older folk.
The combination of を{o} + は{wa} causes the は{wa} to change to ば{ba}. This is a phenomenon called rendaku, where certain combinations cause voicing of the initial consonant of the second part.
In terms of meaning, をば is used to emphasize the object of the statement.
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@stackreader: しばらく前のことですけれども、盛岡市の周辺にある老人ホームに訪問したときでした。喋られた日本語は老人に限ってさまざまな面でテレビで聞かれる「標準語」と違いました。例として、「らりるれろ」の発音さえ違いまして、まさに英語人が「La, Li, Lu, Le, Lo」をいっていたように聞こえました。 – Eiríkr Útlendi Oct 12 '16 at 1:17
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@stackreader: 自分ならその半分しか理解できませんでした。これはもう日本語じゃない、って感じでした。困っちゃったね!（＾＾） – Eiríkr Útlendi Oct 12 '16 at 1:27
