Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. We would like to introduce basic Japanese grammars in this”Shcool News” to those who are interested in learning Japanese language and those who are currently learning Japanese lanauage.

[General Features of Japanese]
1. Parts of Speech
The Japanese language is comprised of verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, conjunctions and particles.
2. Word Order
A predicate always comes at the end of a sentence. A modifier always comes before the word or phrase to be modified.
3. Prediate
There are three types of predicates in Japanese: noun, verb and adjective. A predicate inflects according to whether it is (1) affirmative or negative and (2) non-past or past.
Adjectives are divided into two types according to their types of inflection. They are called い-adjectives and な-adjectives.
In Japanese, words do not inflect for person, gender or number.
4. Particle
A particle is used to show the grammatical relation between words, to show the speaker’s intention or to connect sentences.
5. Omission
Words or phrases are often omitted if they are understood from the context. Even the subject and object of a sentence are often omitted.

May 31st News, from NILS Japanese language school.