The "I found some Japanese I don't understand" thread.

[マーク・ウェーバーMember]

I actually don’t know entirely why, but when ending a sentence with　だったから you always seems to attach だ、です or ね。 In this context it is exactly the same as ending a sentence with から＾＾

[AstralfoxMember]

Thanks. That one was really bugging me for some reason.

[NeilMember]

What is から anyway, I’ve seen it in a song title and didn’t know what it means?

[JoelMember]

It means “because”. “Aから,B” means “because of A, B”

[Anonymous]

If it’s in a song title, it’s probably the “From” meaning.

[JoelMember]

Aha, yes, it also means “from” (as in, “I have class from 2pm to 4pm” or “it takes me two hours to get from home to work”). Context is important.

That said, I don’t know if I’d say から in song titles is “from” more often than “because”…

[Anonymous]

But I would

[NeilMember]

This is the song 上からマリコ, I guess it’s something to do with her being tall.

[missingno15Member]

This is the song 上からマリコ, I guess it’s something to do with her being tall.

[JoelMember]

Or she could be standing on a balcony, maybe.

でも、柔らかいですよ。あの窓から光は何ですか。東で、ジュリエットは太陽ですよ!

[NeilMember]

Well she is definitely one of the tallest in the group as missing can attest to being the resident AKB expert.

[Anonymous]

上からマリコ is “From” meaning.

[akaspirinMember]

I don’t know if it’s the right thread, but I’ll just go through with it now.

I’m just in the beginnings. It’s about  は and が.

Before I came to TextFugu, I learned Japanese with books and some stuff online. There I “learned” that が introduces a topic, like when someone talks about something, and begins with another topic, they’d use が. When they continue with the topic, they use は.
Is that compatible with what TextFugu says about it? Sometimes I can’t really see the connection. :/

[kanjiman8Member]

@ akaspirin

が is the subject marker, and は is the topic marker. が identifies something, and は talks about something.

[akaspirinMember]

Yeah I got that, that’s how it’s explained, I just didn’t see the connection between this and what I read earlier.

I finished a few more chapters now, though, and exactly what I was describing was happening. It’s basically the same I was learning :)

Thank you, though!

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