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Last posts we learned about what particles are and two particles (は and の) (read posts for day 2 and 3)

Today's grammar point/particle of the day is:

を・o

Note: the hiragana character を(wo) is pronounced as "o" when written as a particle in modern japanese. Though, the "wo" pronunciation is not that uncommon in anime or other forms of media or historical stuff.

The particle を marks the direct object of a sentence
In other words, it marks the person or thing that the verb is verbing on

This particle is usually placed after the object of the sentence



In the sentence "ケーキをたべる・ケーキをたべる・ke e ki wo taberu"
食べる・taberu is a verb that means to eat and ケーキ means cake

In the japanese sentence, the particle を is the object marker, so it marks that the thing that the verb is working on, is the word before を, which is ケーキ or cake

Here we know the "cake" is the object of the sentence and the thing that the verb is working on.

So, ,This sentence translates to "eat cake"




No matter what the word order of any sentence in japanese is,
を, when used as a particle, always comes after the word/phrase that is the object



"私は面白い映画を見ます・わたしはおもしろいえいがをみます・watashi wa omoshiroi eiga wo mimasu"

in this sentence 面白い映画・omoshiroi eiga is a noun phrase that is followed by を, since "omoshiroi" is an adjective that is adjectifying "eiga"

So the object here is "面白い映画" or "interesting movie"

This sentence translates to "I see an interesting movie"

note: not every verb can take an object (I.e the verb for "sleep") and not all sentences require an object

If you have any questions please ask me and I will try my best to answer😊

Note: I am also learning japanese myself, so I might have made some mistakes. I did try to fact check everything before I wrote it, but I am only human after all. So if you spot any mistakes, please tell me🙏

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Have a great day and thanks for reading😊