Introduction

General Features of Japanese

1.Parts of Speech	The Japanese Language is comprised of verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, conjunctions and particles.
2.Word Order	A predicate always comes at the end of the sentence. A modifier always comes before the word or phrases to be modified.
3.Predicate	There are three types of predicates in Japanese: noun, verb and adjectives. A predicate inflects according to whether it is (1) affirmative or negative and (2) non-past or past. Adjectives are divided into two types according to their type of inflection. They are called い- adjectives and な-adjectives. In Japanese, words do not inflect for person, gender or number.
4.Particle	A particle is used to show the grammatical relation between words, to show the speaker’s intention or to connect sentences.
5.Omission	Words or phrases are often omitted if they are understood from the context. Even the subject and object of a sentence are often omitted