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Why Japanese sentence structure confuses most learners
(and how to finally understand it)
Most Japanese courses teach you that Japanese follows an SOV (subject-object-verb) structure, like "I sushi eat."
But here's the problem: this comparison is meaningless because Japanese doesn't actually work like English at all. In fact, trying to understand Japanese through an English lens is exactly what keeps you stuck.
In English, word order tells you who did what, but in Japanese, it's particles - small grammatical markers like は (wa), を (wo), and に (ni) - that define each word's role in a sentence.
Once you understand how particles work, Japanese grammar suddenly becomes incredibly logical.
In Japanese, particles (not word order) define what each word does in a sentence.
Instead of memorizing rigid sentence patterns, you need to understand how particles organize information in a sentence. When you grasp that particles define different roles (not word order), and you understand how those roles relate to the verb, you can build your own sentences with confidence.
This single insight transforms Japanese from a confusing puzzle into a logical system you can actually use to express your own thoughts.
Want to learn more? Get my free Japanese Sentence Structure Cheat Sheet and discover exactly how particles work so you can stop memorizing phrases and start building your own sentences.
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