Today’s grammar lesson is on a special use of Japanese particle を (o). You may already know that the primary function of particle を is to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The direct object is the one who receives the action which is done by the subject. In other words, it answers …
Today I’d like to briefly explain how to say “anywhere/anyone/anything…etc” in Japanese. The question word is called 疑問詞（ぎもんし）in Japanese as 疑問（ぎもん）means “question” and 詞（し）means “word”. Parts of speech in generals have this 詞（し）as a suffix, as in 名詞（めいし = noun）, 動詞（どうし = verb）, 形容詞（けいようし = adjective）, 副詞（ふくし = adverb）…etc. Anyways, when a question word is …
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Japanese particles are certainly a headache for most Japanese learners. Many of them – even intermediate level students can still make mistakes in choosing the right particles when they speak. If you are not familiar with its functions, particles are used to identify parts of speech in the Japanese language. This is because Japanese sentence …