Questions tagged [particles]
助詞. Non-inflecting function words which follow words, phrases, or entire sentences.
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What is the で part in ではありません？
Ok, this might be more complicated or less complicated than I'm making it out to be but I'm assuming this question will be made up of two unrelated components but I can't figure it out so I'm shooting ...
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What is the function of では in this context?
I was trying to translate this text and I didn't understand the use of the では particle. I thought it might be something like “with this body without feet, hands and wings I am the serpent of the world”...
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Can adjectives follow the に particle?
https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/verbparticles lead me to believe that the に particle should be used with a verb. However I have been reading some sentences that have noun + に + adjective.
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How can I tell how much って is quoting?
When you use って, how do you differentiate who is part of the quote from who made the quote?
For example:
彼女はかわいいって/She said かわいい or
彼女はかわいいって/someone said she's cute
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What does き stand for in 招き猫?
As question suggests: what does き stands for in 招き猫? Is it some sort of particle, that "connects" 招(invitation) and 猫(cat) or something else?
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Why use に instead of を in 彼に会います/連絡します
Please explain to me why に is used instead of を in these sentences
彼に会います
彼に連絡します
Is that because 会います is a transitive verb?
Please give me more detail.
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Verb て-form + もない meaning
Example sentence, which is a response to someone who is talking like they were already invited to a party:
まだ誘ってもないのに｡
I'm not able to wrap my head around the grammar used in what looks like a pretty ...
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Can a sentence-ending particle like よ be used to express multiple nuances at once?
Example: 知らないよ in response to someone thinking you know, even though you don’t.
Using wikitionary for particle lookup, I found these 2 uses of よ that could fit the context:
indicating statement of ...
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can で particle be used to say "and"
I saw some example sentences where the で particle was used to say "and", can't you just use "と" or "し"? Why was で used?
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から vs. を in: あちらから出て or あちらを出て? 東から昇る or 東を昇る?
I've learned that when you want to express "to come out of something without obvious boundary" , it's better to replace を with から.
For examples:
あちらから出てきた人は誰ですか。 (を should not be used here, ...
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Understanding たは: [closed]
I'm sure this has been covered, but searching for something as vague as たは has it's complications given た's usage as a verb ending.
My question comes from the たは use in the following.
あなたがたは世の光です。
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How does this ending particle じ work?
I've seen this particle used before multiple times but have chosen to ignore it each time. Though here's an example where I can find this particle being used.
冬来りなば春遠からじ - (from what I guess it might ...
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Tense of sentences ending with のだ such as 楽しかったんだ
From what I can find,
楽しかったんだ
is considered to be in the past tense, which confuses me.
I would have thought that の nominalized the preceding phrase, and the sentences as a whole was then placed in ...
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Pitch accent for 〜ごろ(に)
I can't find any source for how the pitch accent of 〜ごろ(ni) works. Does it function like any other particle, carrying the pitch of the previous word, or does it act more like a suffix like 〜人 or 〜語; ...
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What does 上 without a particle means?
幽霊事件はその特異性上どうしても捜査が後手に回ってしまう
My understanding of the sentence is that she's saying that due to the 特異性 nature of the case in the end the investigation falls behind/stalls 後手に回ってしまう.
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Prepositional phrase with に and verb 感じられる
"界王神界にまでエネルギーが感じられるほど強大な力を開放し"
In this phrase, would it to be correct to say the prepositional phrase "界王神界に" connects to the object of the verb "エネルギー" or the subject of ...
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What does のと mean in this context?
I was reading a children's book in Japanese and found this sentence:
明日になったら、町へ行って、木の実の干したのと、便せんを交換できないか聞いてみよう。
I understand most of it, except the part that says "木の実の干したのと". I know 木の実 ...
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What does it mean when the kana を is at the end of the sentence?
I have seen a couple of instances of を being used at the end of sentence. From my limited knowledge, を is supposed to be used to indicate the direct object of a verb, but I have seen it following a ...
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How can I determine what particle (∅, に or は) should I use with temporal nouns?
I’m a bit confused with the choice of particle with temporal nouns. For example, which is the difference between the following sentences?
夏休旅行したいと思っています。
夏休に旅行したいと思っています。
夏休は旅行したいと思っています。
And ...
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How to say "For me it’s hard to speak Japanese"?
Just a quick question: If I wanted to say "For me it’s hard to speak Japanese." would it be correct to say 私は日本語を話しにくいです。or would that be unnatural? And do I have to use を or で after 日本語 (...
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Can the direct object (with を) appear before the instrumental (with で)?
I apologize if this question is too basic, but I was doing some beginner exercises on an app (no, not that app), and it marked this as incorrect:
あのアメリカ人はラーメンをフオークで食べていますね。
The correct order, it ...
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What is pitch accent for ではありません?
I hear it like: ではありません{HHLHHHL}
Is it correct?
Could not find answer in OJAD.
PRAAT:
Sound sample: https://voca.ro/1iCkbzE4w7HT
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"を奪{うば}われた" used incorrectly instead of "が奪{うば}われた"? (Bleach) [duplicate]
In Bleach Sennen Kessen-hen (S01,E04), (slight spoilers) captains have an ability called Bankai. They thought that the enemy could seal this ability. But as KB realizes, the enemy actually steals this ...
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Does へ in 東京へ何しに行くの？ mean "to"?
So I have this sentence:
[東京]{とうきょう}へ[何]{なに}しに[行]{い}くの？
The translation for this is "What are you going to Tokyo for?"
But as I understand it へ means "to", and 何しに行く means "...
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Is たべにいっている in the sentence 「かれはすしをたべにいっている」 correct?
I've got this sentence: かれはすしをたべにいっている。
Why is たべ which is たべる followed after by に and then by another verb? Is this correct?
Apparently it means "He is going to eat the sushi."
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Compound particles: ni wa [duplicate]
So I have this sentence: Sotsugyou paatii ni wa sanka shinai yotei desu.
Now if I take wa from the sentence, it should still mean the same. What is the purpose of wa in this sentence?
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Why is に{ni} used instead of を{wo} in ~に{ni}[当たる]{ataru}?
In this sentence:
[父]{chichi}[親]{oya} [が]{ga} [昔]{mukashi} [宝くじ]{takarakuji} [に]{ni} [当たった]{atatta} [こと]{koto} [を]{wo} [話した]{hanashita}。
[当たった]{atatta} is a verb taking the object [宝くじ]{takarakuji}. ...
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Why is が{ga} used instead of を{wo} in ~が{ga}[聞ける]{kikeru}?
Why is が{ga} used instead of を{wo} in ~が{ga}[聞ける]{kikeru} in the following sentence?
[日本]{nihon} [に]{ni} [いながら]{inagara}、[フランス語]{furansugo} [の]{no} [ラジオ]{rajio} [番組]{bangumi} [が]{ga} [聞ける]{kikeru}。
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Why is the particle を used without a verb in the following context? [duplicate]
First of all, this question shares the same context with another Q&A asking for the meaning of 手{て}かがり.
What follows is an excerpt from N2新完全マスター, in particular the section 問題紹介 where they are ...
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「noun」は、「noun」でも代用かのうです。 - What is the role of でも here？ [duplicate]
For example if you have the sentence "ストッキングは、靴下でも代用かのうです。"
Is でも a single word or is it the で-particle followed by the も-particle? If the latter one is the case, then も can be left off ...
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"Ningen ga kurushindeiru" vs "ningen wa tsuyoi" [duplicate]
Ningen ga kurushindeiru means Humans are suffering while ningen wa tsuyoi means Humans are strong.
My question is can't we just say Ningen wa kurushindeiru?
My reason for asking this is because "...
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What is the meaning of と in 足りないからとキスして? [duplicate]
This is part of a song called マリーゴールド.
アイラブユーの言葉じゃ
足りないからとキスして
雲がまだ二人の影を残すから
いつまでもいつまでもこのまま
I'm quite confused to understand what と is doing in 足りないからとキスして.
Maybe it's just an emphasis and the ...
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Meaning of 旅がしたい vs 旅をする [duplicate]
In Spice & Wolf trailer, as far as I can understand Holo says わっちは主【ぬし】と旅がしたい; I'm trying to understand why が and not を, since one would usually say (I think) 旅をする, and 旅 is the object of したい.
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"Gakko ni ikimasu", shouldn't it be "Gakko e ikimasu"? [duplicate]
First off I'm a newbie and I'm only learning the language not the writing system so please dont edit this into Japanese or respond in Japanese, I won't be able to get it.
So I have this sentence: ...
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今 and the は particle
I'm reading Genki I and I encountered the sentence 「今何時ですか。」 in page 42.
My question is: Why is the は particle not used after 今? Could we use it?
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How to use wa and ga in sentence with two potential subjects, wa and ga help
Please let me know if this sentence is correct as is; still learning.
金髪さんは私が彼女の友達だと思います
金髪さん could be both the topic or the subject; I'm confused in using both は and が in a sentence with two nouns ...
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Meaning of しとくとして in this sentence
とりあえずさっきの子にLINEしとくとして…
軽く飯食べって帰ろ…
I take he's saying he'll contact the girl from before with LINE, but what is しとくとして?
しておく+ として? How does it work?
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Does it matter to use が or は in one sentence lines, for example: textbook questions?
So when doing textbooks, it just asks me to write translate from english to japanese.
The sentence I was just doing was, "Since my family will come to Japan, I will show them around Kyoto. In ...
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meaning of も in 毎日捨てるのも、もったいない。 [duplicate]
The sentence is from the やさしい日本語 blog. The author is talking about 残り湯 and what to do with it.
最近は、毎日お風呂にお湯をためて入っています。そのお湯（残り湯）をどうするのか？毎日捨てるのも、もったいない。 ですから、洗たくに使っています。
Could you explain the meaning/...
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Particle の omitted when writing but not when saying
There are words, like 箱根関（はこねのせき）, 伊勢国（いせのくに） or 加賀国（かがのくに）that despite being written without a particle の before 関 or 国 in the previous examples, this particle の is said when reading them because it ...
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Can I substitute を with に in this sentence?
In the sentence:
姫様を助けてあげてください
The recipient of あげて is 姫様. So can I use 姫様に to explicitly imply the recipient and omit the object of 助けて (姫様を) and does the following sentence make sense?
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When に does not seem to denote change of place
This answer explains that when used to indicate a place, で means the action is happening at that place while に indicated the verbs causes a change in place. That all makes sense until I run into some ...
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Why is the ga particle used here instead of o particle?
今は時間がありません
I do not have time now
In the above sentence, "I" is the subject and time is the object. Therefore after the kanji for an hour, an o particle should be used. Then why is ga ...
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ごめんね vs ごめん or what does ね add to the phrase?
From this answer I can see that they're both casual, but ごめん is more casual.
There's also this question but it's rather about な and ね generally. Still it (or this article) explains the uses of ね, and ...
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古典日本語について：「つ」で二つの名詞を連接する
最近Bilibiliで（実質的に中国版のニコニコ動画サイト）見つけたのは、文語版深海少女の動画です。
誰かがあのめっちゃ流行ってた曲「深海少女」の歌詞を古典日本語（文語）に変換し、動画を作り出しました。歌詞を見習う時、気になったのは最後の部分の一言です：
元の歌詞：
深海少女 腕を引かれる 歌う祝福のマリンスノー
深海少女 もっと知りたい 心惹かれるあの人を見つけたから
この動画：
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Particle と function in "あんまりのりだすとあぶないぞー"
A small doubt, in the phrase: "あんまりのりだすとあぶないぞー" I do not understand why the particle と is in the phrase, its function is not to include anything? As in lists etc? What function is she ...
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What is the use of the 'は' particle in this sentence?
The sentence is 'あなたには僕が見えるか？', which supposedly translates to 'Can you see me?'.
I'm confused about the usage of the ’は’ particle here. Since there is already the ’が’ particle to indicate that 僕 is ...
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How long has へ been a replacement for に in indicating direction? Is it similar to を in that context?
After reading an answer on this site about some particulars of particle usage, I recently got a copy of The Structure of the Japanese Language by Kuno. It has been an interesting read, although the ...
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How to know which names of food items can be prefixed with "o"?
I realize that we can prefix the names of some food items such as "sushi", "sashimi", "mizu", and others with "o".
However, there are other food items, such as &...
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Understanding the uses of も and の in this sentence
The following sentence was said to me in a conversation:
だから堅実な器具があっても危ないのを好むのも思い上がりなんだろ？
My understanding of this sentence is:
"Is it not hubris to have safe tools and prefer dangerous ones?&...
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