Particles

Question 1

です

Answer 1

Is, Am, or Are

Question 2

ね

Answer 2

Isn’t it

Question 3

か

Answer 3

Turns the statement into a Question

Question 4

を

Answer 4

It’s a particle that indicates that the word that comes right before it, like えいご, is the object of the verb (はなします).

Question 5

は

Answer 5

は is a little word with a big job. It lets your listener know, like a little fanfare, that the word before it is what you are going to talk about in the rest of your sentence. If you want to get fancy, you can call it the “topic marker”!

Question 6

の

Answer 6

の is one of the super-useful particles in Japanese with multiple functions. In the phrase つまのメアリー, の tells us that the preceding noun is the attribute of the noun that follows it. In other words, つまのメアリー means “Mary who is (my) wife”–or simply, “(my) wife Mary”!