{"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<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\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 &#8220;<ruby>\u79c1<rt>\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f<ruby>\u5b66<rt>\u304c\u304f<\/rt><\/ruby><ruby>\u751f<rt>\u305b\u3044<\/rt><\/ruby>\u3067\u3059&#8221; (I am a student), the topic of the sentence is &#8220;I&#8221; (<ruby>\u79c1<rt>\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f) and the subject is &#8220;I&#8221; (<ruby>\u79c1<rt>\u308f\u305f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u304c) because I am the one who is a student. In contrast, in the sentence &#8220;<ruby>\u72ac<rt>\u3044\u306c<\/rt><\/ruby>\u304c<ruby>\u8d70<rt>\u306f\u3057<\/rt><\/ruby>\u308b&#8221; (The dog is running), the topic of the sentence is &#8220;the dog&#8221; (<ruby>\u72ac<rt>\u3044\u306c<\/rt><\/ruby>\u306f) and the subject is &#8220;the dog&#8221; (<ruby>\u72ac<rt>\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":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joyokanjikai.com\/learning-japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}