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    ninjoetsu
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    On the chapter in season 7 for が being used as “but” there are a few sentences which use the はparticle where I would expect an を to be used. Here are a few of them:

    ビールは飲みます

    I will drink beer

    オレンジジュースは飲みません

    I will not drink orange juice

    Surely from the particles used they should mean “Beer will drink” and “Orange juice will not drink” respectively?

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    Joel
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    This is a case of は being used as a comparison marker – it can combine with or supplant other particles in a sentence as needed. In fact, more often than not, it’s replacing が, you just don’t notice it. This can give you double particles like には and では. For example, 事務所に行く時、電車では車よりいいですよ – when going to work, it’s better to go by train than by car. Here, the は is performing exactly the same function.

    が and を are always replaced by は (so you’ll never get, say, をは), and that’s what’s happening in your example. Don’t forget: は marks the topic of the sentence, not the subject of the verb. In this case, ビール is the object of the verb, and the object marker を is being implied.

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    ninjoetsu
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    Ok thanks:)

     

    #38491

    Anonymous

    Yeah, couldn’t have been explained better.

    #38494

    Joel
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    It probably could have. On second reading it feels a little disjointed, so I’m hoping I conveyed my point properly. =P

    Double particles tends to be one of my weak areas…

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