Genki Chapter 1 - です

Genki Chapter 1 - です

~です.

It is ...

The subject

Many times in Japanese there is no subject like there is an English. Sentences without these subjects are very common in Japanese. Japanese speakers actually tend to admit subjects whenever they think it is clear to the listener what or who they are referring to.

Subj ... continued

When it is not clear what is being talked about, we use in Japanese what is called a particle. That particle is は (wa)

せんこうは　にほんご　です。

(My) major is the Japanese language

X は Yです。Sentence pattern

X is Y. As for X, it is Y