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06-25-2011, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by beinghere View Post
Ooops, I blew it. I meant to ask about "O" and "Ga". They come at the end of a noun sometimes.

I'm literally just starting so please forgive the simplistic level of my question.
を and が are very different. One marks the direct object of a verb, and only ever does this. It has no other function at all, ever.

が marks the subject of a sentence (and does other things, too, but it never marks a direct object). (many coming from a European-language background will confuse this with は, the topic marker).

In the sentence "I ate the apple," "I" is the subject and "apple" is the direct object.

Hopefully this illustrates, briefly, how different the two are.

There is zero overlap between が and を.
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