Course 2, Lesson 1, Grammar Notes 6 : Word Order

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6. Word Order

Japanese sentences are fairly flexible in the arrangement of elements that appear in them.

Generally, sentences are made up of several noun-particle sequences followed by a verb or an adjective, which in turn is often followed by a sentence-final particle such as 'ka', 'ne', or 'yo'.

Among the noun-particle sequences, their relative orders are to a large extent free.

A typical sentence, therefore, looks like the following, but several other arrangements of noun-particle sequences are also possible.