Sentences in Japanese is constructed in a very different way compared to English.
Japanese is a SOV language, which means that sentences follows the Subject-Object-Verb pattern. English on the
contrary is a SVO language.
Example:
Literally the Japanese sentence translates into:
| わたし | は | がくせい | です |
| I | (particle) | student | is |
| Subject | Object | Verb |
There are two other things except for the word order that is worth the notice in the example sentence. The first is
that the Japanese sentence omits the "a" before "student".
The second is the わ particle which is used to indicate the topic of the sentence, more on that in the
particles section.
The second "strange" thing with the example sentence except for the word order is that the Japanese sentence omit the
"a" before "student".
It's quite common in Japanese to leave out the subject in a sentence if it's clear
what it is. So the same sentence can have different meanings depending on the circumstances.
がくせいです (I) am a student
