Learning The Japanese Sentence Structure

Japanese is a Subject-Object-Verb language. Thus, in a typical sentence, the subject comes first, the object next, and the verb last. This kind of word order sequence for the sentence is sometimes referred to by the initials SOV (and SOV language).

What about questions? The word order remains the same. But remeber: Japanese does not use question marks. A sentence becomes a question by adding the particle ka at the end. You can think of ka as a question mark.

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