Basic Word Order

BASIC WORD ORDER

The sentence order is very different from English. In English we use Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), but in Japanese it is usually Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) - observe:

	S	V	O
ENGLISH	I	eat	bread.
	S	O	V
JAPANESE	watashi wa	pan o	tabemasu.

Notice the "extra" words (wa & o) These are called particles (or grammatical markers) and tell us a lot about the function of the word it follows. Don't worry! We will get to particles soon enough.

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