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Good Evening
I am currently in the season four of textfugu. However there are some thing I did not understand.
まず ベーグル を たべましょう is First off, lets eat a bagel
とうとう なつ が きました is Summer has finally come
I though that when you use a verb you need to normally use the を or Ni particle. But in one of the sentences above we use が and in the adverb page I saw some other examples as this. I do not undestand why is it this way.
Another question.かれ は ときどき おもしろい ですね is He is sometimes interesting.
Also when the adverb comes before the verb do we normally use は or が of we can also use the particle を or Ni
Thanks for your help I appreciate it.
Yours faithfullyThis isn’t an adverbs question – it’s a particles question. Particles in Japanese are post-positions – they always, always modify they word that comes before them. New learners to Japanese tend to think “hey, を always comes before a verb”, but it doesn’t. It always comes after the direct object (i.e. the thing that has the verb done to it) – it’s the direct object marker. In fact, the direct object (and the を attached to it) can be anywhere in the sentence (with the caveat that if it’s too far from the verb, people start to lose track of what’s going on). In English, the function words play in a sentence is defined by word order, but in Japanese, it’s defined by the particles, which means word order doesn’t matter, save that the verb always goes on the end. That said, if you jumble things too much, sentences start getting confusing.
With all that in mind, きます is an intransitive verb – it doesn’t take a direct object. (The same is true for “come” in English, you’ll notice.)
The positioning of adverbs is a little bit more flexible than other words, but the particles don’t change (otherwise you’d change the meaning of the sentence).
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