A real sentence, one particle missing — は, が, を, に or で. The English translation is your clue. No login, nothing tracked.
English shows a word’s job by position; Japanese tags the job with a particle placed right after the word. Learn the tag, and word order stops mattering so much.
| は | Topic — what the sentence is about (said “wa”). Background, known info: “as for X…” これはすしです — This is sushi. |
| が | Subject — the spotlight; new or emphasized info, and the thing you like/want/can. コーヒーがすきです — I like coffee. |
| を | Object — the thing the verb happens to (said “o”). みずをのみます — I drink water. |
| に | Destination / target / time — where you’re headed, who receives, when it happens. えきにいきます — I go to the station. |
| で | Place or means of action — where something happens, or the tool it happens with. ここで写真をとりましょう — Let’s take a picture here. |
The famous は vs が pair: は = background (“as for the cat, it slept”), が = spotlight (“it was the cat that slept”). Rules only take you so far — the intuition comes from reps, which is what this page is for.
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