What they say about contrast or emphasis are not all set in stone rules. It depends on the context and what some people consider contrast is not contrast for others. (This is a pen. This is a table. Is this contrast? これはペンです。これはテーブルです。How about this??) And linguists and teachers try their best to analyze and describe the language but it's difficult sometimes. In my opinion we don’t use Ga very much except for when you really want to emphasize it or you talk about the future or the past as I said in this video. It’s difficult to understand Wa and Ga logically but I’m happy that you could get the feeling of Ga and Wa in my video!

@LuckyOwly

3 жыл бұрын

You're the best at explaining stuff. Keep it up! Thank you!

@shr6482

3 жыл бұрын

I think the particles "wa" and "ga" are used to differentiate "This is a pen" and "This is the pen". Would you agree?

@LuckyOwly

3 жыл бұрын

@@shr6482 What about my name *is*, though?

@shr6482

3 жыл бұрын

@@LuckyOwly For example, it would be "I am Jack" and "I am the Jack". Same thing as Hitoki's medical student example. "I am a medical student" and "I am the medical student"

@shr6482

3 жыл бұрын

It actually fits with the meaning that Hitoki is trying to convey in the video. The particle "ga" is used to specify/differentiate whereas "wa" is a general statement.

Super clear explanation! Thank you for speaking at a relatively good speed for e learners like me!

@catw

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I found the speed super helpful for actually picking up what he's saying, and the dual subtitles are amazing for learning 😍❤️

@s.y.7866

3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha hiii I love your music and your covers Reese Lansangan :

I can speake fluent Japanese (Since im living in Japan for 10 years) and i think 私は (Watashi wa) is used when you want to put emphasis in what is coming after that WA, but when you use 私が (Watashi ga) is when you want to put more emphasis in what is before GA. Thats like the mental image i have with those particles, example: Talking with a friend: -"Anata wa doko ni sundeimasuka?" (Where are you living?) -"Watashi wa Tokyo ni sundeimasu" (Im living in Tokyo) Since the most important part of the sentence is the place where youre living (Main focus of this chat is coming AFTER particle) you use WA. But in the case of GA: Talking with a nurse: -"Doko ga itaindesuka?" (Where do you have pain?) -"Ude ga itaii desu" (I have pain in my arm) Since the most important part of the sentence is the part of your body where you have the pain (Main focus of this chat is coming BEFORE particle) you use GA. In the end and once you get use to the language, i think you know where to use those particles even without thinking, also... Japanese people understand how difficult is to us to learn the language, so they are pretty nice and understanding about those little mistakes. PS: Sorry if my English grammar sucks, im an Spaniard and little by little im forgeting English! T_T

@OneMoreWord1

3 жыл бұрын

Hey your English is still excellent 👍 but thanks for the this comment it helped a lot!

@cynthyamolina5295

3 жыл бұрын

That's the way my japanese sensei teached me.

@sophialarson4576

3 жыл бұрын

this comment just cleared up so much confusion for me ありがとうございます 💀🙏 and your english was great and looked very natural 🙌 i guess, remember to use "a" instead of "an" before "spaniard". not terribly important, but eh 💀👍

@ruveydakaradag9605

3 жыл бұрын

I found this quite insightful, thanks for sharing this ^^

@gemgem24able

3 жыл бұрын

Not to be rude, but I think "ni" used with sundeimasu, not "de"

Can we take a moment to apreciate how he pronounces so correctly so we can understand him better?

ooh is that why in Boku No Hero Academia whenever All Might arrives to rescue people he said “watashi GA kita”, as in to emphasis yall can stop worrying now bc me, THE All Might, is here.

@justarandomperson2786

3 жыл бұрын

WAIT YOUR RIGHT!! This might help me remember HAH-

@BigTroubleD

3 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant!

@Mothy-chan

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, before scrolling to the comment section and while watching the video explanation I thought exactly the same thing XD

@mirae3776

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what i was thinking!

@412Shivangi

3 жыл бұрын

Comment section here is really informative👍

"It might be wrong on a grammar test, but it's not a problem for communication" - onomappu

So that's why All Might says 私がきた, because he is indeed a superhero

This was so so helpful!!! Wa and Ga are so difficult!

@FDE-fw1hd

3 жыл бұрын

は is like am a and が is like am the. For example 俺は医者です。 is I am a doctor. 俺が医者です. Is I am the doctor. It's used if someone maybe asks, who's the doctor? For connecting subject and verb. 僕はいじめられてる。I am being bullied. 僕がいじめられてる. I am the one being bullied.

Basically, は vs が is "A" vs "The" I am a med student I am the med student Edit: not so basically, this is a general case, は roughly translates to "as for..." and が to "is the /am the" どこがいたい？(where is (the place that) hurts?) どこはいたい？(as for where, it hurts.

@evieiseve

2 жыл бұрын

This just makes sense, thank you 😂

@abdrex2139

2 жыл бұрын

@@evieiseve wait is it really true?

@rei-qq4uf

2 жыл бұрын

@@abdrex2139 its a simplified way of explaining it but the majority is right.

@aprilrahee

2 жыл бұрын

You saved me 🤭

@auundie3508

2 жыл бұрын

すごい分かった。

純正日本人だけど母国語が明文化されて説明されてるの見るの結構面白いですね。 普段無意識に使い分けているもののルールをここまでわかりやすく表現できるのはすごい

「私　は　このビデオ　が　好きです。」言い方ですね。 ;)

@shafinsadiq

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's like that, but you can't use space between the charecters

@OutcastYBJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@shafinsadiq but why not I think reading would be so much easier I always have so much trouble reading because of the no spaces

@user-jy1xs3gd6h

2 жыл бұрын

actually for beginners its ok to use spaces, in books for children they use them as well:) but you should definetly go ahead sometime

@AlejandroChavez-en8qx

2 жыл бұрын

Identify the particles and the structure will become much easier... you will be able to read even if there's no space betweeen them. I'm not a nihongo advanced speaker but I'm learning as well. Hope it works on you

@rkpyi8616

2 жыл бұрын

Woah this is the first sentence i can read with Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji and know the meaning!! I feel so proud of myself

I've been struggling on when and how to use 「は」 and 「が」 ever since I started learning Japanese particles. With your explanation, now I can understand it a bit more clearly! Thank you so much!

@vanessameow1902

3 жыл бұрын

Hitoki explained it really well in respect of its practical use, but if you wanna learn a bit more about its grammatical aspect, check out Misa Sensei's video. Imma link it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJ-iz7eimpnAec4.html

@FDE-fw1hd

3 жыл бұрын

は is like am a and が is like am the. For example 俺は医者です。 is I am a doctor. 俺が医者です. Is I am the doctor. It's used if someone maybe asks, who's the doctor? For connecting subject and verb. 僕はいじめられてる。I am being bullied. 僕がいじめられてる. I am the one being bullied.

Could we use 'boku ga Hitoki desu' as a response to 'Docchi ga Hitoki san desu ka?'?

@Onomappu

3 жыл бұрын

You got it! Yes that's correct🎉

本当にありがとうございます イスラエル出身です 日本語が大好きです

Usually i understand like 20/30% from japanese videos, but this guy's speech is so understandable for me somehow xF

@markjosephbacho5652

2 жыл бұрын

He talks clearly

@RizalBudiLeksono

2 жыл бұрын

he talks slowly for us

So, it's like this: "Boku no neko ga kawaii" = My cat is the cutest... "Boku no neko wa kawaii" = My cat is cute. Right?

@ridvet

2 жыл бұрын

"Boku no neko ga kawaii" only my cat is cute

@manishmayank4199

2 жыл бұрын

@@ridvet boku no neko ga ichiban kawaii boku no neko shika kawaikunai aren't these the sentences correspoing to the op's and your sentences respectively? Both of them sound different to me than "boku no neko ga kawaii"

@yasutakou5928

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t が Be “my cat is the one that is cute”

@yasutakou5928

2 жыл бұрын

“誰がかっこいい？” Who is the one that is cool? “ジョン” john

@user-te2me9gr6i

2 жыл бұрын

"僕の○○がかわいい"って言い方はあまり使わないかな。"僕の○○が一番かわいい"って感じで最上級で使うかも。 使う場面はみんなの○○もかわいいけど僕のが一番かわいいって言いたいときに使う "僕の○○はかわいい"は一般的に○○はかわいくないって言われているけど、僕のはかわいいってかんじかな。

初めてのスポンサー、おめでとうございます！🎉

@Onomappu

3 жыл бұрын

ありがとう☺️

When I was first learning Japanese, I learned that "wa" is for the topic of the conversation, and "ga" is for the topic of that specific sentence. Your explanation is definitely better and less confusing! Thank you!

Been studying this for a year now and so far this is the best explanation I've seen on the subject, nice

I was taught that は emphasized what comes after it while が emphasized what came before it, but this is also another great way to help differentiate the two. Thank you!

Really really helpful, thank you!! I also realized that using "wa" or "ga" is similar to English when we use either "a" or "the" ☺️☺️

That means if my name is Levi, "Ore wa Levi da" should be my answer to the question"who are you?" And "Ore ga Levi da"should be my answer to the question "who is Levi?" So ka... Arigatou!!!

@user-jc2lz6jb2e

3 жыл бұрын

I remember Mikasa in episode 7 saying "Kyojin GA kyojin WA koroshteru". I don't study Japanese, I just noticed it.

@zeynep-ho9kv

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-jc2lz6jb2e if i'm not mistaken it was "Kyojin ga kyojin wo koroshiteiru"

@gemgem24able

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on who is asking. "Ore" is a bit....uhh... 😅

@mccribb

3 жыл бұрын

"Ore" = no. Unless there's a literal fox incubating inside you AND you're yakuza, it's best to avoid it altogether in actual Japanese conversation. Depending on context and relationship of speaker to listener, the most likely response in that exchange would be: "Levi to iimasu." If this is an introduction, this would presumably be followed by a "Yoroshiku onegai shimasu!" or much more formally, "Riibai (Levi) to moushimasu. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu". Hope this helps!

@innnn663

3 жыл бұрын

@@mccribb very formal Japanese there^^

THIS HELPED SO MUCH OH MY GOSHHH WOW

This was so concise... I'm dumbfounded

Omg thank you, I've struggled with this for a few years and never heard it explained this way. I think I understand better now

Thank you for this! I finally understand the difference 🙌 Also, the end when you tried to pose for the thumbnail was so funny and cute xD

Thank you so much for this! I love how you speak Japanese throughout the whole video and have subtitles! This is so helpful for listening skills, so thank you so much!

まじでかわいい🙈 優しく教えてくれて皆感謝していますね🤭💕

I've been quite confused about this for the longest time so thank you for this!! I just had to subscribe right away haha

Oh so that's why they used "ga" on the anime title "Boku dake ga inai machi" *mindblown*

I really appreciate that you do your videos in easy-to-listen-to-Japanese! And as a primary school teacher, I think even I could learn from your engaging and positive way of teaching :)

I really like that you provide japanese and german subtitles at the same time. I'm still at the beginning of learning japanese, almost done with N5 and this video finally helped me to better understand the difference between は and が. Thank you :)

America: Duolingo Japan : *LingoDeer*

Woah, I like how mind opening learning Japanese is! 😄 It’s like I finally see the bigger picture. These particles are always used in such a wide range of situations. Same with kanji, if you take them too literal, they usually don’t make sense. But when you try to connect the meanings … 🤯✨

"は" & "が" tripped me up nonstop, especially on the の方 lessons haha. This is such a great explanation!

I have a friend who is learning portuguese talking to me on discord. At first, he tried to create his own phrases and every time it got really weird. Then he stopped and now just repeats my way of speaking. It just works lol So I try to do the same with japanese and even english. If I don't know how to use a particle or word, it just means I haven't heard it yet, so I keep listening and reading to learn new phrases and ways of speaking. This is also why your videos are important to me, thank you!

The video that every Japanese learner needs to watch 🙏🏻🙌🏻 especially if your native language doesn't have topic/subject particles, like English!

@Onomappu

3 жыл бұрын

Yei! I'll make more useful videos for sure👍

マジで嬉しいです！ ハとガの使い方がすごく難しくて、色々な研究とか本で勉強しているけどなかなか使えなくてめっちゃ悔しい！ ネイティブから見たハとガについての考え方を共有してくれて、本当に感謝しています！

I’m a beginner at Japanese so I had to slow the video to 50% to read the English subtitles. After having a good idea of what you were talking about, I rewatched to see if I recognized any words and/or kanji from my study. I am so pleased to say that I could recognize 25% of the kanji and about 50% of the words. I could, if I spent enough time studying your video, I probably would have understood most of the concepts you taught without English subtitles. So exciting!!! About the video, this was such a great explanation. Most Japanese teachers only focus on what the particles actually do, not how to misuse them and why using them at the wrong time sounds wrong/funny. This aspect of your lessons are great. I think more language teachers could learn from your example. It not only adds humor, but it gives much more context. Both necessary for swift language learning.

I think in some occasions, it’s quite comparable to “a（は）” and “the（が）”

I was waiting for you to say 私が来た！💪

I’ve been teaching myself Japanese for years and I need to say this is the single most useful hint I have ever encountered. Since I began over ten years ago, it was always explained to me that は was exclusively for the subject, or “topic” of the conversation and is generally implied after the initial use, whereas が was to be used thereafter until the subject was changed. Needless to say, that is just damn confusing when conversations can shift rapidly from subject to subject. Having it explained like this is a massive help! ありがとうございます、ひとき先生(⌒▽⌒)

Спасибо Ютуб за эту рекомендацию :)

Finalmente entendi essas duas

So 'wa' is basically 'a/an' and 'ga' is 'the'. Except it is also used in cases of name, so that part isn't very similar to English. But I suppose if referring to a king or something you'd use 'ga' and 'wa' in case of your name.

@japoneze6507

3 жыл бұрын

If you think about it as 定・不定冠詞、then you would probably fail the exam. Why? Because Japanese Language has got no such thing as 冠詞。It would be wrong to thing about は and が as "an" or "the". In stead, try thinking about it this way は is the TOPIC particle. Whatever attached to は　（○○は）would be the main theme of the sentence. Ex 私は you are explicity talking about yourself. 学校は You're using School as the main theme. That's why it IS possible to say something like 学校には昨日行きました。今日は友達の家に。("TO SCHOOL" as the main topic of the first sentence, and you are saying that - depending on the context, it has to be obvious who are you talking about. - something has already went [to school] yesterday. And in the next sentence, you change the topic and say "Today", that person will go to a friend's house. And let's think about it a little bit. How would you most probably be talking about? Who are you almost sure that would go to see a friend to their house? YOURSELF. That's why in propper English the sentence would translate as "To school I've already been yesterday, today I'll go to a friend's house") Furthermore, you can say この部屋には椅子がない 　(There are no chairs in this room - it is a strange situation. There SHOULD be chairs here) この部屋には椅子はない　 (There are no chairs in this room - it is a normal situation. There SHOULD NOT be chairs here) 日本語が難しい　(Japanese is difficult FOR ME. IT'S HOW I FEEL THE LANGUAGE FROM A VERY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE. Thus, is not a "normal" situation, you use が). One extra fact about this が use. As for many people, it would be new information that you feel it difficult. That's why you can think of it as "new information" 日本語は難しい　(Japanese is INDEED difficult. You are taking for granted that for EVERYONE it is the same, and there is no doubt that it IS difficult. It is noraml for it to be difficult. It would be strange if it was easy. That's the point). And in contrast with the last jot in the previous sentence, you can think about this は as "general truth" or "well known information" じゃ、問題です。 空(?)青いです 空(?)赤いです What do these sentence mean? Replace the question mark with the propper particle.

@soullesscadmium30

3 жыл бұрын

@@japoneze6507 I really appreciate this but I am still only able to read hiragana so I didn't understand most of what is written... Also since I am self taught, mostly through listening to japanese radio and things, I never deeply thought about the distinction between は and が so I may have jumped to conclusions sorry 😅

@aimulnwza

3 жыл бұрын

@@japoneze6507 空は青いです。って一般知識のことですね。空は赤いと言ってるとちょっと違和感がありそうですよね。空が赤くなったと言ったほうが文法的に自然ですね。異世界や世界の終わり別の話ですが。

as all might said "WATASHI GA KITA" this explains all the video i guess xD

@mhammadalloush5104

3 жыл бұрын

The dub does it some justice by emphazising "I" when that particular phrase is translated.

2:25 Yep that’s emphasis 😂

ive always thought of it as "a" and "the" 私は学生です。im a student 私が学生 im THE student not completely equivalent, but it　"feels" kind of similar. the gives more emphasis, vs a.

*"私が来た"* 4:31 www

@Onomappu

3 жыл бұрын

みんあ、安心して、「「私が来た！」」

@caesium563

3 жыл бұрын

もう大丈夫！

@Antianti-ti

3 жыл бұрын

@CS:GO сФинщини 来る→come 来ている→is coming 来た→came / has come In this case, 「時　は/が　来た」means ‘the time has come’ not ‘the time came’☺️

@Antianti-ti

3 жыл бұрын

@CS:GO сФинщини yes, you are right. I am happy people from other countries learn my language😊

@FDE-fw1hd

3 жыл бұрын

@CS:GO сФинщини no not present. In this case it can be used for past tense and for past participle . There's pretty much no difference in japanese.

Hitoki-san, when I listen to native japanese speakers, instead of "ha" and "ga", I hear "saa" in their place a lot: "kyou no saa...", "Hitoki-san tte saa... ", I'm guessing it's something really casual, like "um", but it's not in textbooks so I'm not sure how to use it myself (or if I should avoid it). Maybe there's a video there?

@Louisvr2024

3 жыл бұрын

I heard that "saa" in anime a lot like "ano saa", "omae tte saa", "orera wa confidensuman saa". There is no equivalence of that "saa" in my fisrt language (which is Spanish btw).

@reviewchannel3038

3 жыл бұрын

This particle is used to show that you have some info to say, or you want share some thoughts with someone (in casual way) and its not related to は or が

@coder13

3 жыл бұрын

@@reviewchannel3038Sure, grammatically it's not related, but it seems like it is essentially a substitute as used by real people in normal communication? (In other words, Hitoki-san said that many native speakers drop 'ha' and 'ga' when speaking, but it seems to me there are additional filler words they use as well so things sound more natural?)

@reviewchannel3038

3 жыл бұрын

@@coder13 -saa it's not some particle to fill with in every situation, its used when you want to address to someone. In other word with this particle you start conversation with someone

@Akichii

3 жыл бұрын

@@coder13 You're correct, it's a filler (aizuichi) but particular to the Tokyo (maybe Kanto?) region, I believe. It's equivalent to eito and ano.

日本人だけどよくわからなくて見に来たｗｗｗｗ

日本語の解説をする動画を見るのって面白いね 発音がすごく丁寧で聴き取りやすいんだろうな

AHHHHHTHIS IS SUCH A GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

This was super helpful! Thank you!!

Thank you for this 💖

Woahhh you cleared all my questions in 8 minutes! Awesome video Hitoki-san!

Best explanation ever

このチャンネルは天地からの祝福です@_@ 2年前の時は日本語を勉強したんですけれど、今までも「は」と「が」はとっても難しいんですが今はこのビデオを観ていた、モヤモヤの部分はちょっとなくなった気がします! 本当にありがとうございますひときさん!師匠と呼んでもいいかな?ｘＤ

Now it makes sense! I understand perfectly! Thank you so much! ♡

THIS WAS SO HELFUL THANK YOU

I swear this helped me so much thank you

I've been looking for this kind of video and I landed on the perfect one.

Thanks for the video, I needed it!

This subject gets me every time

Thank you SO SO much for this! I was always wondering what the differences are and how to use them but there's always this giant article to read and you summarized it up easily.

Thank you!! I’ve been struggling with this for years!

Very entertaining yet so easy to understand! Thank you so much for this!

this was suuuuper helpful!! also love Lingodeer

Thank you! This was really helpful.

this was such a clear and easy to understand explanation! thank you

Ohhh thank you for explaining this! This is something I always was confused about while learning and I had never found an explanation in text books or online that made sense. This really makes so much more sense now! ^-^

I love this channel. Your Japanese is so clear and you also keep the videos short. It makes them easy to rewatch.

I feel so great when I get everything you say without subtitles. Thanks so much!!!!!

I absolutely love your videos! Your pronunciation is so clear and the content is so interesting! Thank you!

Amazing! Thank you!!

Thank you for the explanation!

This really clarified it for me. Thank you Hitoki!

THANKS! I REALLLLLY NEED THIS :3

Love it!!! This is one of the best explanation video i’ve seen, thank you so much hitoki-san!!!

That was honesty the best explanation for は and が that I have ever heard. Thank you for that! I could understand even without English subtitles since the speach was really clear.

I honestly looked at so many videos regarding this but your video was by far the clearest and makes the most sense. Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for this explanation! It makes so much more sense than other reading I've done!

This is so helpful!!! And I love how clearly he speaks ^_^

I swear to god, you deserves a LOT of subscribers. This is really helpful, easy to understand

Very good explanation

thx a lot! i've always had problems with these two particles. you’ve helped make it clearer for me. great video! keep up the good work!

This video was so useful, thank you so much for the great explanation!!

I think you’re the best Japanese teacher on youtube. You’re always so easy to understand and help me see the language in new ways. Thank you for your videos!

分かりやすい！！！！ありがとうございます！

ありがとうございます、先生！😭💜

Great explanation, thank you so much!

Superb clear explanation, good job

This is the best video I've found that differentiates wa and ga, thank you bro👊👊I kinda understand now

Thank you so much for this explaination! It was easy to understand. Finally it all made sense.

This was a great explanation!!! Thank you 😀😀

thank you so much , i’ve been wondering about that for a while now. very good job sensei

ありがとうございます! This video was so helpful lmaoo I been struggling with は vs が for so long. This is the only video that makes it more clear for me

thank you so much for teaching us and explaining in a way we all can understand, you really helped me!

was just having this conversation with some friends who are fluent in japanese about the difference and this was probably the clearest explanation i've been able to find. thank you!!

Thanks for your kind language sharing