The Japanese Sentence Structure #shorts

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So Japanese sentence ordering is a bit different than English, as you might have noticed. In English we are used to the following sentence structure: subject, verb, direct object, while in Japanese it usually is: subject, direct object, verb. For example, if I were to say ‘I eat a hamburger’, which is 私はハンバーガーを食べる (watashi wa hanbaagaa o taberu) in Japanese, it would directly translate to ‘I hamburger eat’, thus demonstrating the subject, direct object, verb structure.

However, the thing is that since Japanese uses particles to give words in sentences a specific purpose, you can basically shuffle words in sentences around and they will still make sense, since you will always know what purpose they serve. For example we could also say: ハンバーガーを私は食べる (hanbaagaa o watashi wa taberu). The sentence structure now became: direct object, subject, verb. However, this still means ‘I eat a hamburger’. However, this sounds a bit strange, so I strongly recommend using the subject, direct object, verb order. Also, one very important thing! As you might have noticed by now, the verb must always come at the end of a sentence! This is because only parts of a sentence that come before a certain verb apply to that verb.

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