Asking Questions
The vocabulary for this lesson:
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ka question maker dare who |
nan what doko where |
yasai vegetable oishii delicious |
To ask a question in English, you need to word your sentence in different ways to make it sound like a question. With Japanese however, all you have to do is add "ka" to a statement to make it a question, as in the example below:
Yasai wa oishii desu.
The vegetables are delicious.
The vegetables are delicious.
Yasai wa oishii desu ka.
Are the vegetables delicious?
Are the vegetables delicious?
You don't have to reword the sentence, all you need to do is add "ka" to the end. The words for what, where, and who are nan, doko, and dare respectively. See how these words can be used below:
Nan desu ka.
What is it? What is this?
What is it? What is this?
Doko desu ka.
Where is it?
Where is it?
(Anata wa) dare desu ka?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Toukyou wa doko desu ka.
Where is Tokyo?
Where is Tokyo?