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What's the difference between -ga and -o when they are used to designate a direct object?
During the past month I've been addicted to Japanese. I've listened to about 10 online tutorial video courses and read about as much printed lessons. I am determined to learn Japanese, but I am really ...
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What is the difference between using を and と with the verb 言う?
I apologize if this is a basic question, but it's something I've never been entirely clear on. When using the verb 言う (to say), I can never figure out whether to use the particle -と or the particle -...
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It seems that 渡る is categorized as 自動詞 (intransitive verb), yet it is frequently used with を. Why?
Jisho says 渡る is an intransitive verb, and ALC says it is sometimes 自動 and sometimes 他動.
In either case, the particle を can be used. What's going on here?
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Can ご存じです function as a transitive verb?
I recently got an automated email from Twitter with the following subject (except with real user names):
username さん、username さん、username さんをご存じですか?
My question is about を paired with ご存じですか. As ...
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Should there be a に instead of を after クラスメイト in「それをクラスメイトを見られて以降」?
In the following sentence is it correct to put the second を here?
それをクラスメイトを見られて以降
Maybe it should be に? And if it's correct, how can we translate this part?
Here's the paragraph where the line ...
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Nominalization with のが、のを
I've just learned to nominalize verbs with のを but as I was looking for more info on the web I saw that this is also done with のが and こと. The question "What is the difference between the nominalizers ...
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Particle を between nouns
So there I am again, asking a question from the book "Sword Art Online 1".
This time it's about the sentence: またの名を≪ソードアート・オンライン≫。
What is the meaning of を in this case?
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Passive form - The exact difference between を and が
I've seen this question asked before, but i feel the answer didn't quite answer all my questions, so here goes.
Now, I am rather sure that this:
ケーキが食べられた
Means:
The cake was eaten. (by ...
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Is を頑張る standard Japanese?
This question came up on chat.
In this phrase:
TOEIC、頑張ってください
Can the comma be replaced by を? If not, is there a better particle?
頑張る is listed as a 自動詞 in both of my dictionaries (岩波 and 集英社)....
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Is 感じる {かんじる} transitive or intransitive? Which particle to use?
Please consider 一段 {いちだん} verb 感じる {かんじる}. Sometimes I see particle に applied and sometimes particole を. In the Jisho.org vocabulary it is not specified if this verb is 他動詞 {たどうし} (transitive) or 自動詞 {...
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Was "乎" the man'yōgana spelling of the accusative/object particle "を"?
In the English Wiktionary entry for "を" there is a quote or example sentence using the character "乎" with no explanation seemingly where the particle "を" would normally occur.
Now I couldn't find ...
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Help with sentence 私が外国を歩くようになったのは・・・
This clause is from a book that I'm reading called "日本人が知らない世界の歩き方". It's the first clause of the first sentence in the book and coincidentally the first one that I'm having trouble with. In ...
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この道をまっすぐ行ってください。 Why を and not で?
In a quiz, I got a question where one had to complete with に、を、で or が the following sentence:
この道（？）まっすぐ行ってください。
The correct answer being:
この道をまっすぐ行ってください。
It always seems more natural to me ...
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understanding the grammar of "XをYに"
兄さんをエサにホムンクルスを引っ張り出します
Is there an implied verb after に, or not? Is this sentence more along the lines of the situation when you have two verbs connected with the ～て form, or is it more along the ...
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Can you use multiple を in one sentence?
I was listening to lastfm.jp the other day, and happened across this line in an artist bio:
14歳の頃にギターを、17歳で作曲を始める。
I've often read here on JLU that a phrase particle should only appear once per ...
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Sentence ending のを(だ)
I do not understand the meaning of のを:
a. 彼は家を買った。 しかも大きい庭付きのを(だ)。 (だ is indicated as optional)
Is it different from:
b. 彼は家を買った。 しかも大きい庭付きだ。 (I'm not sure if this is grammatical)
c. 彼は家を買った。 ...
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Logic behind "が" preferrence when using a "-たい" form
I have learned that when using a "-たい" form, when the sentence would normally require "を", you can use either "を" or "が", but "が" was actually preferred, "を" sounding unnatural.
I searched about the ...
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Use of に and を with 触れる
The verb 触れる challenges my concept of what を does; to mark a direct object.
Consider these uses of 触れる:
（人）の頬に指を触れる (Touch a finger to someone's cheek)
（人）の頬に手を触れる (Touch someone's cheek with your ...
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How do you pronounce を after a subject?
For example :日本語を勉強します.
Do you pronounce ni hon go wo or ni hon go---
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を vs が with use against 好き?
The difference between が and を with the potential form of a verb. and Is it true that all nouns must be able to accept a が particle and a を particle? are noted as possible duplicates; however, I haven'...
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雨を降っています - grammatically correct sentence or just typo? [closed]
It seems that there are around 14-17K Google results on each of "雨を降って" and "雪を降って" keywords. Is 降る yet another intransitive verb that are used with を? Does it mean something like "rain on me" and "...
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Making sense of transitive usage of 行く and 来る - 「を行く」 and 「を来る」
I think it's known that some intransitive verbs can take を particle and be used as transitive verbs such as for example 「私のことを分かってくれない」. While using 分かる transitively would require specific scenarios ...
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Why is it 日本語がわかります instead of 日本語をわかります?
From what I understand, は is the topic marker, が is the subject marker, and を is the object marker.
One of the first sentences I learned doesn't seem to fit the rules I described above. The sentence ...
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Why are we allowed to use を particle with na-adjectives?
Can someone explain the usage of a na-adjective with the を particle?
I cannot understand why we can say
ほうれん草を嫌いな人もいる。
because I'd thought that it had to be a が or の particle instead of an を.
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Does the particle "を" (wo) have a special use when at the end of a sentence?
I thought the character "を" (wo) was only used for the particle whose only job was to indicate the direct object of a verb.
But today I saw it at the end of an exclamation on a sign I think on a shop:...
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Use of the particle を to mean where something is going?
A little while back I was working my way through the Book "Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication" When I got to page 156 it explains the topic of the section which is "The te form of ...
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The difference between が and を with the potential form of a verb
When using the potential form of a verb, I was taught that the particle を becomes が. However, in real life this seems to not always be the case. I've even heard Japanese people use を instead of が ...
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