Peter's Japan blog

Last time we talked about the basic sentence structure in Japanese. Two important things about the Japanese sentence structure is that the subject comes first, and the verb comes last. Now we will talk a bit more about a few particles which have a direct impact on our sentence structure.

1. '-wa': the subject particle: は　(note that -wa is written with the hiragana of 'ha', not 'wa')
- used to indicate the subject of a sentence. It is used to put emphasis on the thing we are talking about when it might not be clear or there is a change in subject.

2. '-ga': the subject particle: が
- subject being talked about without putting special emphasis.
- also a weak condition between two sentences.

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