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gizmo686 on March 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure

This isn't quite true.

は has two distinct usages. One is to mark the topic of the sentence. The other is to mark the subject of the sentence with a contrastive connotation.

glandium on March 20, 2017 | [–]

It also has a use for emphasis. And a few others uses.

strongai on March 19, 2017 | [–]

And what does 'contrastive connotation' mean?

glandium on March 20, 2017 | [–]

See the examples on http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=ha-2

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