{"id":37,"date":"2022-12-13T19:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/?p=37"},"modified":"2024-07-04T18:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:31:40","slug":"%e3%81%af-wa-vs-%e3%81%8c-ga-in-japanese-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/%e3%81%af-wa-vs-%e3%81%8c-ga-in-japanese-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick and easy-to-understand explanation of \u306f versus \u304c in Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nIn Japanese, the particle \u306f is used to indicate the topic of a sentence, while the particle \u304c is used to indicate the subject of a sentence. The topic of a sentence is the general subject being discussed, while the subject is the specific thing performing the action of the verb in the sentence. For example, in the sentence “\u79c1\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f\u5b66\u304c\u304f<\/rt><\/ruby>\u751f\u305b\u3044<\/rt><\/ruby>\u3067\u3059” (I am a student), the topic of the sentence is “I” (\u79c1\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f) and the subject is “I” (\u79c1\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u304c) because I am the one who is a student. In contrast, in the sentence “\u72ac\u3044\u306c<\/rt><\/ruby>\u304c\u8d70\u306f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u308b” (The dog is running), the topic of the sentence is “the dog” (\u72ac\u3044\u306c<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f) and the subject is “the dog” (\u72ac\u3044\u306c<\/rt><\/ruby>\u304c) because the dog is the one who is running. These particles are often used in combination with other particles to add additional meaning to a sentence.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Japanese, the particle \u306f is used to indicate the topic of a sentence, while the particle \u304c is used to indicate the subject of a sentence. The topic of a sentence is the general subject being discussed, while the subject is the specific thing performing the action of the verb in the sentence. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,19,11,10,9],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanations","tag-beginner","tag-hiragana","tag-versus","tag-10","tag-9"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t