{"id":134,"date":"2009-10-13T06:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-10-13T06:51:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T10:51:34","slug":"the-%e3%82%92-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/the-%e3%82%92-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u3092 Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u3092<\/strong> particle is the direct object particle. The \u3092<\/strong> particle is used to indicate that the word is the direct object of the verb. For instance, \u304a\u3061\u3083\u3000\u3092\u3000\u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059<\/strong> shows that \u304a\u3061\u3083<\/strong> is the direct object of the verb \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059<\/strong>. (\u304a\u3061\u3083<\/strong> = ocha. \u3092<\/strong> = o. \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059<\/strong> = nomimas.) (\u304a\u3061\u3083<\/strong> = tea. \u3092<\/strong> = direct object particle. \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059<\/strong> = polite form of the verb ‘drink’.) In English this sentence would be translated as ‘[I] drink tea’. The \u3092<\/strong> particle comes after the noun or object and before the verb. When you’re creating Japanese sentences\u00a0and you don’t have a noun and a verb, you won’t be able to incorporate the \u3092<\/strong> particle. The verb and noun is essential.<\/p>\n

In terms of pronunciation, \u3092<\/strong> by itself is pronounced as ‘wo’ as in the English word ‘wo<\/strong>ven’. However when \u3092<\/strong> is used as a direct object particle, it’s pronounced as ‘o’ as in the English word for ‘o<\/strong>riginal’. Also, the last syllable of the verb tends to be muted. With the example above, the verb \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059<\/strong> is pronounced as nomimas rather than nomimasu. Like \u3092<\/strong>, \u3059<\/strong> is pronounced as ‘su’ when read by itself. However as part of a verb, there’s a tendency to drop the ‘u’ or \u3046<\/strong> part of the sound, leaving the verb to end in an ‘s’ sound. You won’t have to worry about the sound change in the negative form of the verb.<\/p>\n

For example, the sentence \u304a\u3061\u3083\u3000\u3092\u3000\u306e\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> means ‘[I] don’t drink tea’. This sentence would be pronounced as ‘ocha o nomimasen’. Also, in Japanese, there’s a tendency to use less spaces inbetween words, especially when you compare the amount of spacing used in English words. Therefore you’re more likely to see the sentence \u304a\u3061\u3083\u3000\u3092\u3000\u306e\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093 <\/strong>as \u304a\u3061\u3083\u3092\u306e\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong>. I deliberately left a huge space inbetween the noun and \u3092<\/strong> between \u3092<\/strong> and the verb for added emphasis. Also, sometimes it’s hard to understand a sentence when the words are all written in hiragana.<\/p>\n

It’s possible to see some kanji (kanji = Sino Japanese characters)\u00a0to break up the sentence into decipherable parts. Using the example above, it may be even more likely to see the sentence written like this, \u304a\u8336\u3092\u98f2\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong>. The kanji for tea \u8336<\/strong> is used, and the kanji for the word drink \u98f2<\/strong> is also used. Here the \u304a<\/strong> is not in kanji because it’s a politeness marker for nouns. The word \u3061\u3083<\/strong> means tea, but adding the \u304a<\/strong> to \u304a\u3061\u3083<\/strong> makes this politer. The reason why \u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> is not in kanji is because the suffixes following the verb such as \u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> and \u307e\u3059<\/strong> indicate tense and affirmative\/negative endings. These endings are left in the hiragana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u3092 particle is the direct object particle. The \u3092 particle is used to indicate that the word is the direct object of the verb. For instance, \u304a\u3061\u3083\u3000\u3092\u3000\u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059 shows that \u304a\u3061\u3083 is the direct object of the verb \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059. (\u304a\u3061\u3083 = ocha. \u3092 = o. \u306e\u307f\u307e\u3059 = nomimas.) (\u304a\u3061\u3083 = tea. \u3092 = direct object…<\/p>\n

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