Japanese Meaning and Sentence-5 ?//Basic Japanese video Part-24// Japanese sentence structure is very different from English, but it’s not hard to master. Compared to other languages I’ve studied, Japanese isn’t heavily grammatical. The words don’t change a great deal to express tense, number, aspect or much else. That’s good news for you! It’s just a matter of mastering the sentence structure.
When it comes to basic sentence structure, Japanese is a SOV language while English is SVO.
SOV means “subject-object-verb.” This is a language where the verb is at the end of the sentence. You’ll see examples of this in Japanese as you read on. SVO stands for “subject-verb-object.” This means that the verb follows the subject, like English. The verb is like the link between the subject and the other parts of the sentence.

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