The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
This article does a great job at presenting a gist of the Japanese sentence structure. Nevertheless, it makes me want to point out that it&#x27;s not the whole story. If you take into account topics such as modality and conjugation, some of the information you add to a verb is placed <i>after</i> the verb and <i>cannot</i> be freely reordered.<p>Japanese verbs are &quot;greater&quot; than English verbs in the sense that you conjugate&#x2F;suffixate a verb to express negation, conjunctions, conditional forms etc, making it longer and longer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Japanese_verb_conjugation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Japanese_verb_conjugation</a><p>In contrast, English has a relatively simple set of inflections of verbs. Many of those Japanese verb forms and suffixated long verbs are translated into multi-word phrases. Compare:<p>Anata wa kyou <i>nemuru</i>. (You <i>sleep</i> today.) -- verb is in normal form (&quot;nemuru&quot;)<p>Anata wa kinou <i>nemurenakatta</i>. (You <i>were not able to sleep</i> yesterday.) -- verb is in continuative form (&quot;nemuru&quot;→&quot;nemu&quot;) + possibility suffix (&quot;reru&quot;→&quot;re&quot;) + negation suffix (&quot;nai&quot;→&quot;naka&quot;) + past suffix (&quot;ta&quot;→&quot;tta&quot;)