{"id":112,"date":"2009-08-13T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-08-13T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:55:36","slug":"the-to-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/the-to-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"The To Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The to (\u3068<\/strong>)\u00a0particle is one of the most extensive particles in Japanese grammar. For today, we’ll only look at two possible meanings that can be conveyed by to (\u3068<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The to (\u3068<\/strong>) particle can be used as\u00a0a conjunction. You can use to (\u3068<\/strong>) to add nouns together. For example, you could say, ‘I study English and Japanese’ using the to (\u3068<\/strong>) particle. In Japanese this would be eigo to nihongo o benkyoshimas (\u3048\u3044\u3054\u3068\u3000\u306b\u307b\u3093\u3054\u3092\u3000\u3079\u3093\u304d\u3087\u3057\u307e\u3059<\/strong>). In this case, to (\u3068<\/strong>) puts together the noun eigo (\u3048\u3044\u3054<\/strong>) and nihongo (\u306b\u307b\u3093\u3054<\/strong>). The to (\u3068<\/strong>) almost acts as the ‘and’ of the sentence. Another example would be, ‘I play basketball and tennis’. In Japanese\u00a0it’s: basuketto to tenis o shimas (\u30d0\u30b9\u30b1\u30c3\u30c8\u3000\u3068\u3000\u30c6\u30cb\u30b9\u3092\u3000\u3057\u307e\u3059<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

To (\u3068<\/strong>) can also be used to indicate words like ‘with’. A sentence like, ‘Takeshi will go to Japan with Miyako’ in Japanese would be ‘takeshi wa miyako to nihon ni ikimas’ (\u305f\u3051\u3057\u306f\u3000\u307f\u3084\u3053\u3068\u3000\u306b\u307b\u3093\u306b\u3000\u3044\u304d\u307e\u3059<\/strong>). You could also say, ‘I talked with a friend’, which would be ‘tomodachi to hanashimashita’ (\u3068\u3082\u3060\u3061\u3068\u3000\u306f\u306a\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f<\/strong>). Notice here that the word for ‘I’ (watashi)(\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/strong>) is dropped, because it’s already implied that the speaker talked with a friend.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The to (\u3068)\u00a0particle is one of the most extensive particles in Japanese grammar. For today, we’ll only look at two possible meanings that can be conveyed by to (\u3068). The to (\u3068) particle can be used as\u00a0a conjunction. You can use to (\u3068) to add nouns together. For example, you could say, ‘I study English…<\/p>\n

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