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Hello there I was doing my adjectives worksheet 2 and i came across this sentence
べんりな ちかてすに のりました
so I thought that because I rode the subway, I am doing something directly to an object and hence use を？
I realise that に is often used like the particle ‘on’. So does the sentence mean to say I rode on the convenient subway.
どもありがとうございました
You are correct. “Ride” is not a transitive verb in Japanese, so it cannot take the を particle.
The same way you can’t “sit a chair”, you can’t “ride a train”; at least that’s the Japanese way to think about it.It makes sense too, you are not actually doing anything to the train.
Yeah, what thisiskyle said.
Oh but I did want to add that I think there is a typo. It should be ちかてつ I think, not ちかてす.
Thanks Jason and thisiskyle, yes I did mean ちかてつ i’m still getting used to typing in japanese ^_^
Also, strictly speaking, the verb 乗る doesn’t mean “ride” but “board” – as in, “I boarded the train”. The transitive version is 乗せる = to place someone on (a train, a bus, a bike, et cetera).
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