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  2. Japanese particles - Wikipedia

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    Particles follow the same rules of phonetic transcription as all Japanese words, with the exception of は (written ha, pronounced wa as a particle), へ (written he, pronounced e) and を (written using a hiragana character with no other use in modern Japanese, originally assigned as wo, now usually pronounced o, though some speakers render it ...

  3. Japanese grammar - Wikipedia

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    猫 neko cat の no GEN 色 iro color 猫 の 色 neko no iro cat GEN color "the cat's (neko no) color (iro)" noun governed by an adposition: 日本 nihon Japan に ni in 日本 に nihon ni Japan in " in Japan" comparison: Y Y Y‍ より yori than 大きい ookii big Y より 大きい Y yori ookii Y‍ than big " big ger than Y" noun modified by an adjective: 黒い kuroi black 猫 neko cat ...

  4. Particles of the Kagoshima dialects - Wikipedia

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    It is functionally similar to the particle まで made in Japanese. [23] Etymologically, the particle originated from the noun 切り kiri meaning "end" or "bound" (rendaku form: ぎり giri), possibly by way of shortening the term 限り kagiri "limit, as far as, as much as". The noun 切り kiri also gave way to the standard Japanese particle ...

  5. Topic marker - Wikipedia

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    hakkyo school 는 neun TOP 저기 jeogi over there 에 e LOC 있다. itta. is 학교 는 저기 에 있다. hakkyo neun jeogi e itta. school TOP {over there} LOC is (The) school is over there. Japanese: は The topic marker is one of many Japanese particles. It is written with the hiragana は, which is normally pronounced ha, but when used as a particle is pronounced wa. If what is to be the ...

  6. Japanese possessives - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language has different ways of expressing the possessive relation. There are several "verbal possessive" forms based on verbs with the sense of "to possess" or "to have" or "to own". An alternative is the use of the particle no (の) between two nouns or noun phrases.

  7. Japanese pitch accent - Wikipedia

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    If the word has an accent on the last mora, the pitch rises from a low start up to a high pitch on the last mora. Words with this accent are indistinguishable from accentless words unless followed by a particle such as が ga or に ni, on which the pitch drops. In Japanese this accent is called 尾高型 odakagata ("tail-high").

  8. Ne (kana) - Wikipedia

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    ね, in hiragana, or ネ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana is made in four. Both represent [ne]. As a particle, it is used at the end of a sentence, equivalent to an English, "right?" or "isn't it?"

  9. Japanese particle - Wikipedia

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