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The reason real-time translation is difficult: sometimes you have to wait for the end of the sentence. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Japanese particles.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Particles are used together with words to mark their grammatical role in the sentence.

私(は) - I (subject)
ホテル(の)向かい(に) - hotel (possessive) across the street (to)
(お)店(で) - (just makes the sentence more formal) shop (in)
スーツ(を) - suit (object)

Fun thing about particles is that word order is a lot more flexible compared to English. As long as the right particles are attached to the right words, you can sometimes* swap around the order of these words and still be grammatically correct.