See が in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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]
],
"text": "宛先が君のラブレターは どこに出せば届くのかな",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Indicates the subject of a sentence."
],
"links": [
[
"subject",
"subject#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese formal terms",
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I like dogs but I hate cats.",
"roman": "Inu wa suki da ga, neko wa kirai da.",
"ruby": [
[
"犬",
"いぬ"
],
[
"好",
"す"
],
[
"猫",
"ねこ"
],
[
"嫌",
"きら"
]
],
"text": "犬は好きだが、猫は嫌いだ。",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"conjunction; \"but\""
],
"links": [
[
"but",
"but"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal) conjunction; \"but\""
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "けれども"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese formal terms",
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "About that thing from yesterday; […]",
"roman": "senjitsu no ken desu ga, […]",
"ruby": [
[
"先日",
"せんじつ"
],
[
"件",
"けん"
]
],
"text": "先日の件ですが、[…]",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used to introduce a new topic into the discussion."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(formal) Used to introduce a new topic into the discussion."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "けれども"
}
],
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese literary terms",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with usage examples",
"Kagoshima Japanese"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "our heart",
"literal_meaning": "we's heart / the heart of us",
"roman": "wareware ga kokoro",
"ruby": [
[
"我",
"われ"
],
[
"々",
"われ"
],
[
"心",
"こころ"
]
],
"text": "我々が心",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Fuji View Hill",
"roman": "Fujimigaoka",
"ruby": [
[
"富",
"ふ"
],
[
"士",
"じ"
],
[
"見",
"み"
],
[
"丘",
"おか"
]
],
"text": "富士見ヶ丘",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Gateway Plains (site of the Battle of Sekigahara)",
"roman": "Sekigahara",
"ruby": [
[
"関",
"せき"
],
[
"原",
"はら"
]
],
"text": "関ヶ原",
"type": "example"
},
{
"roman": "oyagga",
"text": "おやっが",
"type": "example"
},
{
"roman": "anyoga",
"text": "あにょが",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ."
],
"links": [
[
"ヶ",
"ヶ#Japanese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary or Kagoshima) Possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ."
],
"tags": [
"Kagoshima",
"literary"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"roman": "Kono kuso ga!",
"text": "このくそが！",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Used after interjected nouns to express contempt."
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "ga",
"tags": [
"literary",
"possessive"
],
"word": "ヶ"
}
],
"word": "が"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "soft-redirect",
"redirects": [
"画",
"芽",
"賀",
"我",
"牙",
"瓦",
"雅",
"餓",
"臥",
"俄",
"峨",
"駕",
"蛾",
"衙"
],
"senses": [
{
"tags": [
"no-gloss"
]
}
],
"word": "が"
}
Download raw JSONL data for が meaning in Japanese (7.6kB)
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"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"が"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "syllable",
"title": "が",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"が"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "particle",
"title": "が",
"trace": ""
}
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