Talk:Japanese/Lessons/Introduction/Ogenki desu ka/Questions using ka

Particles
The definition of "particle" as "a part of speech that performs some grammatical function" seems iffy to me. Aren't sentence final よ and ね usually considered particles? What is the "grammatical function" of よ or ね? I wouldn't call their role grammatical (indicating the relationships among different words, etc). I'm no expert, but I think this is potentially confusing. Also, do we really need to introduce the jargon "bound word"? It may be a perfectly fine concept but I can't see us ever needing to mention it again.

ToothingLummox 02:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Feel free to come up with a better definition. When you do, please throw it into the Japanese/Grammar module as well. We can leave the bound word discussion out for now as well. --Aaronsama 18:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I borrowed and modified the definition from Wikipedia's [w:Japanese particles] article. It occurred to me that ね can be used by itself as an interjection. Is it then no longer a particle? I always thought of it as an abbreviation of sou desu ne.
 * ToothingLummox 08:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Usually, the interjection is written ねえ, but I'm sure it's abbreviated ね as well. I think grammarians consider this as a separate word from sentence-final ね. ---136.2.1.103 16:12, 21 April 2006 (UTC)