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There’s No Way My Language Grammar Can Be This Unique

Peter Payne by Peter Payne
15 years ago
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One of the more welcome aspects of the Japanese language is the system of “grammatical particles” which mark parts of a sentence. While very different from the grammar of English, this system gives learners of the language a toe-hold when trying to figure out the parts of sentences. There are ‘subject’ markers (wa and ga), a marker for showing direction (ni, conveniently “in” spelled backwards), one for the object of a sentence (conveniently pronounced “o”), one for making a sentence into a question (ka), and so on. One of the most useful particles is no, which ties two nouns together, used for showing possession (ore no imouto “my younger sister”) as well as any association (aki no sora “the skies of autumn”). The “glue-like element” (to quote my old Japanese teacher) of no allows many possible uses, including classic phrases you hear in anime like Darling no baka! (“Stupid darling!”) or Komuro-kun no ecchi! (“Komuro-kun is being perverted”). The particle no is so convenient and easy to use that it’s spilled into other Asian countries like Taiwan and Malaysia where it’s used as shorthand for the Chinese character that serves the same role (in Japanese, it’s pronounced teki). See some examples of no and teki plus the example phrase “my younger sister” in Japanese and Chinese, below:

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