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Any other idiosyncrasies besides wa and o? These are very likely to trip up the beginner, so I'd like to find a place to collect and highlight them. If you ever try to transliterate from kana to romaji (or vice versa) you would have to know about these particles. Do I write wa and say ha? Or vice versa? Let's help our readers (your students) be clear on this. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 06:54, 8 December 2008 (EST) | Any other idiosyncrasies besides wa and o? These are very likely to trip up the beginner, so I'd like to find a place to collect and highlight them. If you ever try to transliterate from kana to romaji (or vice versa) you would have to know about these particles. Do I write wa and say ha? Or vice versa? Let's help our readers (your students) be clear on this. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 06:54, 8 December 2008 (EST) | ||
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| + | :That is a good point - the only other one is "e", written as "he" (へ). We will have to keep a note of these little things as we go along, so we can tidy up the lose ends as we come across them. I will add notes for wa, o and e. --[[User:JessicaT|KotomiT]]<sup>[[User talk:JessicaT|''ohayougozaimasu'']]</sup> 07:41, 8 December 2008 (EST) | ||
Revision as of 12:41, December 8, 2008
- Participles are always written in hiragana.
This wouldn't be true for a telegram written all in katakana. Ha ha, just being technical.
I think what you really meant is that kanji is never used for particles. This actually leads to a more general point: that there are some ideas which cannot be expressed with kanji alone. For example, the tense of verbs is expressed with kanji: like (write) + shimash'ta => written. --Ed Poor Talk 06:47, 8 December 2008 (EST)
Pronunciation
Any other idiosyncrasies besides wa and o? These are very likely to trip up the beginner, so I'd like to find a place to collect and highlight them. If you ever try to transliterate from kana to romaji (or vice versa) you would have to know about these particles. Do I write wa and say ha? Or vice versa? Let's help our readers (your students) be clear on this. --Ed Poor Talk 06:54, 8 December 2008 (EST)
- That is a good point - the only other one is "e", written as "he" (へ). We will have to keep a note of these little things as we go along, so we can tidy up the lose ends as we come across them. I will add notes for wa, o and e. --KotomiTohayougozaimasu 07:41, 8 December 2008 (EST)