Japanese 1036 Lecture 3: L1-X+wa+Y+desu-15-1

• School: Western University
• Department: Japanese
• Course: Japanese 1036
• Professor: Mitsume Fukui

Document Summary

X y (cid:646)(cid:632)(cid:587) (x )y (cid:646)(cid:632)(cid:587) (x) is y. Particles attach themselves to phrases and indicate how the phrases relate to the rest of the sentence. When(cid:2069) (cid:2070)is used as a particle, it is pronounced as wa , not ha . Ms. fukui is japanese. (cid:1396) sentence without subjects are very common in japanese; When the speaker thinks it is clear to the listener what or who he/she is referring to, the speaker usually omits the topic. ((cid:631)(cid:618)(cid:690) ) (cid:631)(cid:646)(cid:632)(cid:587) (the time) is four o"clock. In japanese, there is no item that corresponds to a nor the plural -s at the end of a noun. X y (cid:646)(cid:632)(cid:618)(cid:587) (cid:1393) instead of a question mark ? , a question sentence in japanese is usually followed by a period (cid:1394) add (cid:618) at the end of a statement to make a question sentence. The japanese question word for what has two pronunciations. (cid:2069)(cid:649)(cid:650)(cid:2070)and(cid:2069)(cid:649)(cid:690)(cid:2070: questions word (cid:649)(cid:650) is used before a particle (i).