Meta lingo - understanding parts of a Japanese sentence

Which of the following is NOT a particle?

• o

• wa

• ni

• desu

A past tense verb ends in

• masu

• mashita

• mashoo

• masen

In the sentence: Ojiisan wa yama ni ikimashita

• ni means

  "to"

• ni means

  "two"

• ni means

  "too"

• ni means

  nothing

The particle wa is a

• onomatopoeia

• verb

• noun

• topic marker

  (indicates the topic of the sentence)

In the phrase "oishii omusubi", oishii is a

• adjective

• verb

• noun

• particle

tabemashoo means

• eat

• ate

• shall eat

• won't eat

the particle o comes before a

• verb

• noun

• adjective

• subject of a sentence

The particle "no" (ana no naka) means

• in

• of

• to

• for

A Japanese sentence has a different word order than an English sentence.

• True

• False

Ojiisan wa peko peko desu.

(Old man hungry is.)

What is the word order of this sentence?

• Subject, adjective, verb

• Verb, subject.

• Verb, adjective, subject

• Adjective, verb, subject