Japanese Grammar : Lesson 1 ( Sentence Structure )
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2016
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Today's lesson:
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In today's lesson we will learn about the very first grammar point you should know about the Japanese language.
That point being that the Japanese language word order differs from the word order of the English language.
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Lesson 1 notes:
Let's look at the word order of a basic sentence for both languages:
English word order: S.V.O (subject / verb / object)
Japanese word order: S.O.V (subject / object / verb)
Example sentences showing the differences in word order:
English --------- I eat apples (Subject / Verb/ Object)
Vs.
Japanese ----- I apples eat (Subject / Object / Verb)
As you can see, the word order in Japanese is peculiar to a native English speaker's ears. This is one of the first things you will learn about the Japanese language.
*The best way to familiarize yourself with the Japanese sentence word order is to study an infinite amount of sentence examples until this word order becomes familiar to your ears.
So, here some extra sentence examples with their literal translation to help you familiarize yourself with the Japanese sentence structure.
►Example 1: yuki ga daisuki desu.
-Literal translation word for word:
yuki = snow
ga= subject marker
(The topic "I" is implied but omitted in the Japanese sentence)
daisuki = like
-English meaning: I like snow.
►Example 2: kanojo wa kawaii onnanoko desu.
-Literal translation word for word:
kanojo = she
wa = topic marking particle
kawaii = cute
onnanoko = girl
desu = linking verb "to be" which can mean [is, am, are]
-English meaning: She is a cute girl.
►Example 3: anata no gakkou wa doko desu ka?
-Literal translation word for word:
anata = you
no = [particle added to a noun that indicates possession (Your)]
gakkou = school
wa = [topic marking particle]
doko = where
desu = linking verb that means (is, am,are etc)
ka = [particle that acts like the English question mark (?)
-English meaning: Where is your school?
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ííjíiijij
ありがと ございました!
Turkish and Japanese grammar are same btw 😃
So that means yoda speaks normal in japanese dubs?
Im confused
No, Yoda would probably speak in a SVO order so that he stands out.
Well, I think Yoda technically speaks osv. For instance, in the quote, "the greatest teacher, failure is." The greatest teacher is the object, failure is the subject, and is is the verb.
Confused he is.
He speaks in Japanese Romayji
yeah yoda speaks OSV, normal english people generally speak SVO, and from what i understand japanese is SOV.
This is the most useful video about Japanese word order that I've been seeing since the last two months. ありがとうございます。
こんにちは (konnichiwa)
Khang Phurong,
What a wonderful and motivating message!
hontou ni arigatou ne! (Thank you very much!)
*Please stay tuned for part two of this series coming out on the 25th of this month. (along with new series and a variety of lessons to come.)
Thank you very much for stopping by to comment and I wish you best in your studies!
Keep up the great work! Ganbatte ne! :)
NipponCat japanese sentense structure is pretty trippy to be honest,
so khang u learn Japanese its been 2 years
@@animeandstuff5377 have you learned japanese? it's been a year.
@@qsaethic8927 are you learning Japanese in 2020 too?
cant...stop...learning...Japanese
Cant... LeArn... *KANJI*
Mr globypants same...
@@Fernisawake same...
@@Fernisawake same
Okay, you posted that comment a year ago... are you still learning Japanese today my friend?
fun fact: my first sentence in japanese was self taught, and put together with vocab words. i worked very hard on putting this together, and it took me years to perfect, but here it is...
わたしはあなたをたりべます。
watashi wa anata (w)o tabemasu.
this sentence means...
"i will eat you."
🤣 omg good job! がんばって 👏🏽
Beautiful sentence
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You put unnecessary RI in ta..bemasu
One of my first sentences was a useful one: "Boku no Nihongo masui desu" which means "My Japanese is bad" or more literally, "My Japanese tastes bad". Which somewhat makes sense because there really isn't a word that just means "bad" in Japanese (if something tastes or smells or bad it's "masui", and if a person is evil it's "warui"). And since language comes out of your mouth, bad language would taste bad. Plus since the sentence isn't exactly correct, it infers that my Japanese is bad.
hard to believe that 2016 was five years ago, yet this video is extremely helpful to me now for my classes.
So basically we just have to yodalize everything and we’re good...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pretty much.
Not exactly, since yoda speaks in osv, not sov
@@digaddog6099 TRUE
I was right about Yoda. I always knew he was special
VARY special
Not knowing a thing about Japanese grammar, I found this very educational and well made. when will the next part come out? (I really want to learn about those particles!)
uk cap now its been 2 years
@@animeandstuff5377 unlucky this was actually good but hasnt uploaded or updated website in over a year
@@slicer2938 a yes i see anime has brought u here- lol learning a diff language rn schools killing me , even now as i go on youtube to cram for a test in 8 hours -its 12 am
Has anyone found another channel that teaches Japanese as well as this one does and from a western perspective?As soon as I learn Japanese I can start watching the original versions of anime so I can get the full understanding of what is going on. Anime always has scuh crazy plots and concepts that are not based in reality that you can't just figure it out based only on what you see going on with actions postures and facial gestures. This will give me hundreds more shows to watch so I will never have to leave my mother's basement! Also big ups to Safeway's grocery delivery! Yall should try it some time, good luck learning the language too!
@@evilcanofdrpepper i am learning from japanesepod101... they even have a free website with extremely useful audio recordings of dialouges and so on... I highly recommend visiting their website
And their channel is really good especially since the host is really nice and explains everything in a very calm and fun way
the thumbnail is a perfect interpretation of the difference between english and japanese grammar
To the user "Leaf in Still Water" gomen ne (sorry)
I accidentally deleted your comment. In case you read this message, below is my response to your comment:
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Aww, thank you Leaf in the Still Water. Cats sure are precious and cute
this literally cleared up to much to me and is extremely helpful. thank you so much!
Japanese sentence structure is very similar to Urdu/Hindi. I love your explainations very straightforward.
Truee
I started learning Japanese four months ago and have been watching countless videos to help me understand. This video is by far one of the best ones I have seen! I subscribed immediately, thank you so much. Your content is extremely clear with no extra fluff. Looking forward to more videos :)
Thank goodness I wasn’t the only one one who thought Japanese grammar sounded like Yoda
GIRLLL!!!! We need more from this series!!!!!
ありがとうございます this was very helpful
Perfect introduction to basic structures for beginners, thank you!
I immediately hit that subscribe button after the Napoleon Dynamite clip! Anyway, this is a great grammar video :)
Thank you Samurai Sakura for subscribing! I am happy to hear you enjoyed the lesson.
Please stay tuned in for more lessons coming soon : )
Doumo arigatou ne!
This was a very helpful lesson!! Thanks for making it you explained it really well and helped me a lot with my Japanese studies.
Wow this was amazing, the first video I've watched that held my attention the entire time
This really helped alot! ありがとうございます！
指導、ありがとうございます。
ありがとうございます!
thank you !!!! you explained it so well to me, ive been for some reason struggling with the japanese sentence structures.
I'm so glad this takes you back to basic English grammar. As someone who hasn't been in school for a while, it was a good refresher in order to help connect english with a different language.
thank you, this help me tremendously. Finally I can have visual of the difference between the grammar.
Your videos are very informative and the way you break things down and explain each different topic are great. I can't wait to learn more
本当ありがとう！
先生, ありがとう。Your teaching method for this video was excellent. Clear, concise, and easy to understand. 😁
先生ありがとうございます。
Thank you for the great lesson. i feel dumb because over the years i forgot what nouns, verbs etc was i just use them without thinking about it so this served as a great refresher and provided an amazing comparrison between grammers.
This was amazing. The comparison with English structure was really really helpful!
Wow!!! This is amazing!! Yoda analogy blew my mind
I never thought I'd see Napoleon Dynamite in a Japanese lesson, but its presence is well received.
This was an awesome video I wish there were more of these on sentence structure.
Thanks so much for this. I learned a lot.
you're a God of language teaching!!! I couldn't find a more precise video for Japanese grammar!!!
This video is as good as the thumbnail. This was so easy to understand. Thank you so much!
So helpful thank you!!!
This is really good, it helped me out a lot. Thanks
Looking for a video like this for a while, really helpful! Thanks!
Konnichiwa Monica, Glad you found the lesson useful. Thanks for stopping by to comment. Good luck in your studies! 😊
This video made the sentence structure relevantly simple! Thanks!
Hi Thundercatbass, I'm happy the video helped you. Thank you for watching!
Learning this takes my space samurai understanding of Star Wars to a whole new level. They went DEEP with this!
Now that make sense, after learning a few words and sentence in japanese and now I figure out the point of that. Thank you soo much
OH GOD WHY DID NIPPONCAT STOP 😭 THAT WAS SO USEFUL
ikr
How is your Japanese going
@@What-yl6yl oh hey haha , not very well actually cuz I had to stop for months
@@burglh would you say you could speak with people? When you were studying og course
@@What-yl6yl yes! I mean a very little but I could !
very helpful
Thank you more of this please !
Thank you for sharing how to make basic Japanese sentence you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^
This was really helpful I wish she kept posting I really need it
ありがとうございました
Arigato gosaimasu, this helped me a lot!
this was so helpful 🥺
this analogy of how yoda speaks made me understand japanese even more! i love star wars
ありがとう😊先生！I was so confused on how to form sentenced
Oh my goodness. This was perfect.
Exactly what I needed.
Thank you, I will watch more now👽
This is sooooo helpful and made things easier to understand ty so much
This is a really good video
ありがとう😊
Is that thankyou?
Sorry I'm new:3
toxic_snow 12 yes!
@@Mediocre_Comments oh thanks 😊
you don't know how much this helped me! I only found videos that would just translate sentences but I still didn't understand.. nbut now I do!
I'm a beginner and it's sooo helpful thank you so much! subscribed you!
Woow what a great lesson!
This actually makes Japanese so much easier to learn
good video i was confused at first but now i understand thank you.
ありがとう
Really this video deserves a million views!!! Arigatoo!!!!
Thank you
Alas, if only the series continued; this video was the quite excellently make and help me start understanding Japanese better for my classes which I have been struggling with.
Thank you so much
Very Useful video. I'm studying japanese language right now Im really confused with particles and past tenses and negatives. subscribing!
This helped me so much, thank you!! I''m kind of struggling with this because my teachers never taught me this...
I’m still waiting for the ga and wa lesson
I'm growing old just waiting for that lesson
These are the best videos I have seen on UA-cam. No assumed knowledge, you backed up to reminders of what nouns and stuff were, you aren't going too fast, entertaining without being distracting. Thank you so much for doing these. My finals will thank you too XD
The best way I have ever seen arigatougozaimasu
あるがとうございます
It is similar to hindi my god i can learn Japanese with same sentence sequence...❤
I should have probably started here. I learned about state of being/topic particles before this.
This made learning Japanese so much easier now all I have to do is learn the words and fill in the blanks
*finally finds a decent video about sentence structure* *video ends* cool let's start the playlist... Oh.
I wish you had more videos. I want to understand the particles.
The video, thanks for
This helped me sooo much. 👌☺
Edit: I subbed
Helpful this video is
-Sensei Yoda
Probably
thanks. now I'm waiting lessons about wa and wo
Your video is extraordinarily well done! It's quality is far beyond over half of my college courses (😭 US school system is awful, rip my wallet) I'm so sad that this is your only grammar video
The dynamite reference made me sub haha arigato gozai masu
1. Subject always first
2. Verb always last
Is it really that simple???
EDIT: ok I saw the end, so it's not necessarily that simple in every case, but wow what an incredibly straightforward start! I already feel like this won't be difficult! Thank you! I'm excited!
ありがとう ございます せんせい
ようこそ
Today i learn one word meaning welcome
Welcome back! OK, here goes my confusion with "desu". In "kawaii neko desu", is desu really acting like a verb here (is), or is it just the copula making the sentence more polite? One could just say "kawaii neko" to mean the same thing (cute cat)? Thanks.
Hi my loyal viewer Bud E.
Thank you for your comment. I am happy to be back.
To answer your question,
-Desu is considered to be a copula, in easier terms, Desu is considered to be a verb, in specific a "linking verb" meaning "IS"
So in the following sentence "desu" is serving two functions:
kawaii neko desu.
Amazing thumbnail
That is exactly what I need work on😅
Please upload more videos..
So basically speak like Yoda? Dope.
ありがとう ございました お客様
Great thumbnail
Please make more
Nice comparison - Kanpai sensei
This is amazing to me, because when I first started trying to read Japanese, I thought of Yoda.
Arigato gozaimasu!
7:00
In most English classes, they still would consider “teacher” in the sentence “he is a teacher” as the object of the sentence. The direct object in English is simply something that either has the action of the verb done to it by the subject, but it can also be a state of being. For example, most English lessons would categorize the word “cute” in the sentence “the cat is cute” as the direct object. I understand the distinction you have made, but in many English classes at least in America, no distinction is made between direct objects that are nouns receiving action and adjectives/adverbs that indicate states of being. They are all under the umbrella term of “direct object”