Miageru

The particle は follows the topic the speaker wants to talk about. Therefore, は is often called topic marking particle.

It is often used in a sentence pattern like, AはBです, which means A is B.

Note that the topic is defined for the context, and not just for the sentence. This means that all following sentences use the same topic. 猫はかわいいです. 怖いです (The cat is cute, the cat is scary)

Often a topic is not defined at all. The default topic of a sentence is I (the speaker of the sentence). For example: さくらです (I am sakura).

Sample sentences

• 私は食べます
  I'm eating
• 終電は午後の9時まで行きます
  The last train will go away at 9 pm
• 今日は電車で来ました
  Today I came by train
• 私は山にいました。
  I was in the mountains.
• それは最近の写真？
  Is that a recent photo?
• それは文脈による。
  It depends on the context.
• 親友は何人いる？
  How many close friends do you have?
• 起きた時私は悲しかった。
  When I woke up, I was sad.
• それは面白い。
  That's interesting.
• 私は毎朝散歩します。
  I walk every morning.