What are some important differences between English and Japanese grammar? Are the subjects and verbs and order the same?
There are a lot of differences! For one, Japanese sentence structure is Subject-Object-Verb, instead of Subject-Verb-Object. So, a Japanese sentence saying “Dave gave Frank a pen” (Dave ga Frank ni pen wo agemashita) would read directly as “Dave Frank pen gave”
Other differences are particles that are used to mark objects (ga,wa,no,ni,de,wo and more) and the fact that adjectives have to be conjugated for past tense. You cannot say something “was fun” directly because there is no word for “was” instead the word “fun” (tanoshii) is put into a different tense to denote that it’s in past tense “tanoshii” (it is fun) becomes “tanoshikatta” (it was fun).
There’s more I’m sure but those are the things that stick out the most to me in terms of differences. Thanks for the question anon!
