frequency words?

[eekcm2]

Ive been learning japanese for a while now and I seem to have adjusted Pretty well. Im definitely not saying its easy but I do a Better grasp of the subject matter than most. but there is something that has been bugging me. I recently learned frequency words (in my genki text ^_^) and was wondering if they have a particle that goes with them, and where they go in the sentence if not. I havent seen enough of them in the book yet to know and any help on the matter would be greatly apreciated

[micahcowan]

Sorry, I'm not sure I know what you mean by "frequency words". Can you give a few as examples?

I have a copy of Genki now (for my daughter, hopefully), but it's not handy at the moment...

[LordOfTheFlies]

It depends on what frequency word it is, but generally you don't need a particle.

In the case of ときどき、ぜんぜん、よく、あまり and いつも you don't need a particle. You simply place it in an otherwise already working sentence without adding anything else.

For example;

私（わたし）　は　映画（えいが）　を　見（み）ます - I watch movie(s).
私　は　よく　映画　を　見ます - I watch movies often.
私　は　ぜんぜん　映画　を　見ません - I don't watch movies at all. (ぜんぜん requires that the verb it modifies is negative)

It's also possible to place frequency words after the を, but I believe it's textbook standard to learn it this way.

There are frequency words which use particles but I don't think you'll have to worry about them until you encounter them.

[eekcm2]

In the case of ときどき、ぜんぜん、よく、あまり and いつも you don't need a particle. You simply place it in an otherwise already working sentence without adding anything else

thank you very much that was exactly what i was looking for

[CardinalGuy724]

It depends on what frequency word it is, but generally you don't need a particle.

I remember when I was just first starting to learn Japanese, I was overusing the particle に with my frequency/time words until my teacher told me that you use no particle with those words. Because of the way she sometimes spoke in ungrammatical English, I thought she meant you were supposed to use the particle の, and I quickly started replacing my にs with のs. When my teacher saw this she was really confused until I explained and then she burst out laughing. She then clarified what she meant and then we just both sat there laughing