Example Sentences for Lesson 3: Part 1 of 2

This post contains example sentences to help you understand the particles introduced in lesson three.

Because the vocabulary I have introduced so far is not large enough to form a variety of example sentences, I will introduced some more words, but you do not have to remember them beyond this section. They will be listed in the same way as in lesson one: Kanji Kana English Notes.

A note about pluralization in Japanese: nouns are not marked as being plural unless they are pronouns or nouns that represent people. For pronouns and nouns that represent people, you add the suffix 達 （たち） to show that they are plural. For other nouns, you have to guess from context whether or not they are plural. I will cover pluralizing more in depth in a later lesson.

Nouns:
剣　けん Sword
--　ドア Door
--　ドラゴン Dragon
戦士　せんし Warrior
私　わたし First-person pronoun

Intransitive Verbs:
開く　あく To open
光る　ひかる To shine
行く　いく To go
寝る　ねる To sleep

Transitive Verbs:
開ける　あける To open
殺す　ころす To kill

I'll first show some example sentences for は.

ドアは開く。
どあはあく。
The door opens.

剣は光ります。
けんはひかります。
The sword shines.

ドラゴンは寝る
ドラゴンはねる
The dragon sleeps.

Now I'll show an example sentence for が.

戦士が行きます。
せんしがいきます。
A warrior will go.

Next I'll show some example sentences for を.

戦士はドラゴンを殺す。
せんしはドラゴンをころす。
The warrior will kill the dragon.

私はドアを開ける。
わたしはドアをあける。
I will open the door.

戦士は剣を買います。
せんしはけんをかいます。
The warrior will buy the sword.

I will show some example sentences for the three remaining particles, の, に, and へ, in the next post.

John