Japanese supermarket terms

It depends on whether plastic bags are needed. If you answer "はい", the cashier will give you a plastic bag; if you answer "いいえ" or "いらない", the cashier will not give it to you.

In Japanese, unlike in English, word order does not indicate the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence. Nouns do not change according to grammatical needs, as in some languages. Instead, the grammatical effect is expressed through function words following the noun. The important ones are が(ga), は(ha), and the particles are pronounced as Wa), を(o), に(ni) and の(no). The function word は (pronounced wa when used as a particle) is particularly important because it marks the topic or theme of a sentence.

Extended information:

In terms of phonology, in addition to the promoting sound "っ" and the dialing sound "ん", open syllable languages ??have strong characteristics and have beats ( mora). In terms of stress, it belongs to pitch accent. In terms of word order, sentences are composed of the order of subject, object, and predicate, which belongs to the subject-object-predicate structure and is one of the representative topic-first languages. Morphologically, it is an agglutinative language.

In terms of vocabulary, in addition to Japanese words passed down from ancient times, there are also Chinese words introduced from China. Recently, the proportion of loanwords introduced from various countries has gradually increased. In terms of how it treats people, the Japanese language is extremely varied. There are not only differences between spoken and written language, but also differences between ordinary and solemn, male and female, old and young, etc., as well as a developed honorific system. As for dialects, the differences between the eastern and western parts of Japan are greater, and are called Kanto dialect and Kansai dialect. In addition, for the deaf, there is Japanese Sign Language that corresponds to the Japanese grammar and phonology system.

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