Japanese Particles

Front 1

wa

Back 1

wa marks the topic of a sentence. Very often this topic is the subject of
the sentence, but not always. It most closely resembles the phrase "as
for"

Front 2

ga

Back 2

ga marks the subject of a sentence and puts emphasis on it. It is very
confusing at first to distinguish between the uses of wa and ga since both
can label a subject, but they are very different sometimes and I will
strengthen this distinction as we go along

Front 3

no

Back 3

no signifies that the item before it posesses the item after it. This
meaning can be broadened to the sense of attatching attributes to nouns.

Front 4

o

Back 4

o marks the direct object of a sentence. It tells what or who receives the
action of the verb.

Front 5

e

Back 5

e shows the direction or destination of a motion.

Front 6

ka

Back 6

ka shows that a sentence is a question. In English, questions can often be
very different from their corresponding statements, for example, "Does
he go to the store?" has a rather different word order from "He goes to
the store." In Japanese, this is usually not the case and a statement can be
changed to a question simply by tacking a ka onto the end.