Preposition or Postposition?

Today, I would like to introduce the unique positioning of Japanese word.

Compared with English, Japanese does not have any preposition. On the other hand, there are things like postposition that I would tell. They are called “Joshi”.

However, their functions are absolutely different from prepositions in English. They are added to the end of some particular Japanese words and sometimes show their special functions.

In English, the sequence of sentence is so important that we can determine if the sentence is question or not with the position of verb for example. In Japanese, you only add the word of “か” at the end of sentence to show question. And, this kind of word can also express humanity of the user’s identity or relation ship with the person to talk with.

As for this word of “か”, there are several alternative words like “ですか” (polite), “かい” (friendly), “け” (countryside) or “ござるか” (old style). On the other hand, you don’t have to change the word if it is used by third person singular.

Japanese word focus on the feeling of person to talk to rather than the objective information such as the difference between single or multiple.

So, please be careful about the last word of Japanese if you talk to someone in Japanese.

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