{"id":1480,"date":"2021-06-09T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japanesecomplete.com\/articles\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2021-06-09T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:22:32","slug":"what-are-japanese-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japanesecomplete.com\/articles\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"What are Japanese Particles?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Particles in Japanese are written in Hiragana and indicate <strong>who, what, when, where-to, where-at, how, <\/strong>and so on, akin to the W-words in English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jpc0.b-cdn.net\/img\/bunsetsu-jars-rounded-roles-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The layout of a basic sentence has bunsetsu jars arrayed before a sentence-final verb.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:410px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Let&#8217;s look at a concrete example:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jpc0.b-cdn.net\/img\/particles-sheeatsfoodviachopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Japanese particles match their corresponding nouns [people, places, things] to indicate the &#8220;who, what, when, where, how&#8221; and so forth in a sentence.  Their order can be mixed up as long as the verb arrives at the end.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Particles are how the <strong>role<\/strong> of each element in a sentence is indicated.  You can get a nice primer on the different meanings of the particles in our free guide, <a href=\"http:\/\/jpc0.b-cdn.net\/essential_japanese_mental_model_f1r2.pdf\">Essential Japanese: The Mental Model [pdf]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:472px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/japanesecomplete.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/brain-dti.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1471\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Learning Japanese is fun!  One retrains their brain and language reflexes to anticipate particles <em>after<\/em> the focal terms, as opposed to <em>before<\/em> as in English.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;To the store&#8221; becomes &#8220;store Ni&#8221; and &#8220;With a friend&#8221; becomes &#8220;friend toh.&#8221;  The simple swap from before-a-word to after-a-word takes training, and is 100% attainable with practice and study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned above, you can get a nice primer on the different meanings of the particles in our free guide, <a href=\"http:\/\/jpc0.b-cdn.net\/essential_japanese_mental_model_f1r2.pdf\">Essential Japanese: The Mental Model [pdf]<\/a> brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/japanesecomplete.com\">Japanese Complete<\/a>, Go All The Way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:472px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Japanese particles?  They are role-marking hiragana that follow nouns to explain the who, what, when, where, why, and how in a sentence.  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