Lesson 12
Forming Questions with ka
Forming Questions with ka
Making questions in Japanese is easy. Unlike English, where you have that
silliness of subjects and verbs trading places, in Japanese all you do is
stick ka on the end of a word, phrase, or sentence to turn it
into a question. For example, do you remember "Ojii-san wa sugu
kaerimasu" from Lesson 2? (Grandpa will
return soon.) Well, just slap ka on the end and you've turned
it into a question: "Ojii-san wa sugu kaerimasu ka." (Will
Grandpa return soon?) Let's make questions out of some of our other previous
examples:
- Yoshi wa ringo o tabemashita ka. (Did Yoshi eat an apple?)
- Miki wa sono eiga o mitai desu ka. (Does Miki want to see that movie?)
- Yasumimashou ka. (Shall we take a break?)
By the way, true Japanese doesn't use a question mark. You
will see it used often, usually in advertisements or trendy one-liners, but
real Japanese literature does not use it. In a sense, ka is
the question mark
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