The particles are most important for Japanese grammar.
Suffixes (Postpositions) and Prefixes (Prepositions)All particles are written with Hiragana 仮名 and often consist oft only one syllable. Here are the most frequently used:
The KA suffix makes any sentence a question:
"木はきれいです" 1:1 "tree(nom.) beautiful to-be(polite)" = "The tree is beautiful" (politeness is untranslatable).
"木はきれいですか" 1:1 "tree(nom.) beautiful to-be(polite)-question" "Is the tree beautiful?"
Prefixes are mostly used for politeness:
Some particles have more than one meaning, depending on the context, like と TO:
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