Japanese Sentences
The syntax is
Subject (often omitted!)
Object (unchanged!)
Predicate (unchanged!)
Japanese 1:1
[わたくしは]本を読む
[WATAKUSHI WA] HON WO YO-MU
"[I-Maintheme] book(-Accusative particle) read."
English
"I read the book."
A
subsentence
comes BEFORE the main sentence! This grammar is reversed to Western languages!
Japanese 1:1
[わたくしは]本を読むといった
[WATAKUSHI WA] HON WO YO-MU TO [WATAKUSHI GA]
ITTA
"[I] book read
, [I] said
."
"{looong sentence }
, the minister said
."
English
"
I said, that
I read the book."
"
The minister said, that {looong sentence }."