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Head-finality in Japanese sentence structure carries over to the building of sentences using other sentences. In sentences that have other sentences as constituents, the subordinated sentences (relative clauses, for example), always precede what they refer to, since they are modifiers and what they modify has the syntactic status of phrasal head.
Tatoeba sentences can be used to build lexicographic references for language learners. The JMdict Japanese-English dictionary selects its example sentences from the Tatoeba Corpus. [24] OpenRussian is a free Russian dictionary built primarily from the content of Wiktionary and Tatoeba. [25]
The basic principle in Japanese word order is that modifiers come before what they modify. For example, in the sentence "こんな夢を見た。" (Konna yume o mita), [7] the direct object "こんな 夢" (this sort of dream) modifies the verb "見た" (saw, or in this case had). Beyond this, the order of the elements in a sentence is ...
Perfective form: Grammatical compatibility example sentences English Japanese Function I read a book, watched TV, etc. 本を読んだり、テレビを見たりした (hon o yondari, terebi o mitari shita) non‑exhaustive list of actions If I go to Japan, I want to see Mount Fuji.
Japanese speakers have reported that there is an object gap preference in Japanese cleft constructions due to temporal structural ambiguities in subject clefts. [20] Example: [21] Japanese Cleft sentence (ex.1): "Watashi-tachi ga sagashite iru no wa Joey da." – Adapted from Hiraiwa & Ishiwara (2012)
A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...
In Japanese, there are many sentence-final particles that are used in formal as well as colloquial speech. Some examples include: か ka: question.It turns a declarative sentence into a question.
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.