How To Use Commas In Japanese
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Japanese particles are small words that indicate relations of words within a sentence.
How to use commas in japanese. Comma usage in japanese is incredibly liberal compared to english. While japanese and english do have a couple of common marks japanese has its own unique punctuation marks that you ll need to get a grasp of. The japanese language uses a total of 188 particles. Japanese can be written horizontally or vertically and some punctuation marks. Japanese grammar particles mo to and ya も と and や in this lesson we will learn how to add japanese nouns together with 3 new grammar particles.
Some but not all can be compared to prepositions in english. All about japanese particles the function of japanese particles. But relative to the history of the entire japanese language a couple of decades. The comma punctuation 読点 とうてん has been used in the japanese language for decades since the 1940s. They follow other words such as nouns verbs adjectives are parts of a sentence.
It s a bit different from english punctuation. The japanese comma like the japanese period is used in much the same way as the english one. 4 ways to say because in japanese から ので なので and なぜなら w hen expressing a reason or cause we use such words as because and so in english. Today we re going to learn the four most common ways of expressing because in japanese by using から kara ので node なので nanode and なぜなら nazenara. Mo も と to and や ya all have slightly different uses but they are all very easy to learn.
Here ga is attached to the first clause and is generally followed by a short pause hence the comma for this reason it s most similar to although in english since the although clause is followed by a pause but but comes after the pause. But like you say they ve never really developed any strict rules for punctuation use even after western influence. Punctuation is actually very old in japanese writing predating even the portuguese contact with japan by several centuries at least. You ll need to learn how japanese punctuation works if you want to use japanese social media read japanese books or write to a pen pal. Yakumono includes various written marks besides characters and numbers which differ from those found in european languages as well as some not used in formal japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing such as exclamation and question marks.