Japanese No Question

It has no meaning.

Japanese no question. If said you automatically know you re being asked a question. From john hinds japanese. Question number 28 asked if individuals would swear unqualified allegiance to the united states and forswear any form of allegiance to the emperor of japan. Don t forget to download your free pdf cheat sheet to help you pass the jlpt n5 including grammar focus on particles questions words vocabulary n5 kanji list and more just create your free lifetime account and benefit from all this free content.

We learned how to say my umbrella and sara s umbrella in this review we will look at some more examples and learn more uses of the particle の no. Using the particle の no to show possession. It s like an unspoken question mark. Nonpolite questions ending in の are frequently termed feminine or childish sounding since women and children use this construction.

The japanese particles o and no are commonly used and have many functions depending on how it is used it a sentence. Japanese grammar lesson 3. There are as far as i know no statistics on this so i must simply point out that males may also use this construction with impunity. The embarrasment meant that as a student i was not supposed to question my teacher for it feels defiant.

Both questions caused a great deal of concern and unrest. The particle の no review notes. But he realized that as a non japanese i had a different culture so asking questions was ok for me. To make questions just add ka か ka for example.

In this first usage no is often translated as of but while of does indeed translate to no in japanese this is a confusing way to think of the particle because the order is exactly the opposite of english. Citizens resented being asked to renounce loyalty to the emperor of japan when they had never held a loyalty to the emperor. There is no question mark in formal japanese even questions ending in か ka take the full stop but it is very commonly used especially in casual and creative writing and in manga. The words he said meant that sometimes some japanese say hai when an english speaker would say yes and sometimes say iie for no.

And wikipedia although not always the fount of all wisdom says. When you have multiple no modifiers in a row which we ll look at below it s best not to assume that each no is a reverse of because all to often the english. What s ka ka is just a particle. In formal japanese no particular symbol is used to mark interrogative sentences which end with the normal japanese full stop.

A particle is a word that shows the relationship of a word a phrase or a clause to the rest of the sentence.