It’s amazing how many different situations you can talk your way through using nothing but the “A is B” pattern, but eventually you’re going to need to use an actual verb. And now you can! Or at least, you can as soon as you learn some more verbs.
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言語ガールズ #33
Another Building Block
Blue: Now that you know how to make verbs polite we can learn a new sentence pattern!
Yellow: Hooray?
Blue: Our new pattern is the simple “Subject Verb” pattern.
Yellow: You mean things like “The dog barks” and “The bird sings”?
Blue: Exactly!
Blue: In 日本語 this pattern is “Subject は Verb”.
Yellow: That’s almost the same as in 英語. This is easy!
Blue: One last thing: the は sounds like “wa” instead of “ha”, just like in the “AはBです” pattern.
Yellow: Come on は, make up your mind already!