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04-07-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by dustfire View Post
Hi, I am a total beginner in Japanese. I just have a really minor question. I am getting around to learning the Particles and something confuses me.

Here it says

She is teacher 彼女は先生だ

However with

What is this? これは何

Or better said this is what?

Is there a certain rule in Japanese that you use She is Teacher, instead of Teacher she is?
What?
There is a word order to Japanese that is, to oversimplify a bit, verb-at-end. It's considered a SOV (subject-object-verb) language, IIRC this early in the morning.

What is your native language? We might be able to draw some parallels since you apparently know English as well as something else (I can tell English is not your first language).
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