tiếng Nhật, giống như tiếng Trung, tiếng Hàn, và nhiều thứ tiếng châu Á khác, thường được gọi là ngôn ngữ nổi bật chủ đề, điều này có nghĩa nó có một xu hướng biểu thị chủ đề tách biệt khỏi chủ ngữ và chúng không trùng khớp nhau. Câu Zō-wa hana-ga nagai (desu) (象は鼻が長いです) tạm dịch thô là, "Còn về con voi, mũi (của nó) thì dài" | had already ceased to exist or had changed into something else. The first part of the sentence ending in o z ò refers to what the speaker perceived the second part refers to what happened next or what resulted. In contrast to the phrase Ỏ h o tz discussed immediately above 7 cannot precede o tz . v MLU Z 0 Lf o ỉma kitd kd to omottara mõ kaette shimatta no Ittai nani shi ni kitd no kashira. I thought he had just come. You mean he s left already I wonder why he came at all. Tsukarete ini to miete ima toko ni tsuita to omottara mõ ibiki 0 kdite ini. Looking tired he had just gotten into bed I thought when here he is already snoring. V roughly which is quicker can be used in place of tz h o tz but the focus here is on what actually happened rather than on what the speaker perceived. Toko ni tsilku gd hayai kd ibiki 0 kdite nemutte ini. No sooner is he is bed than he is snoring. ÍÈỈỈ LTV OÌZo Kare wa chõshoku 0 tabem gd hdydi kd ie 0 tobiddshite ittd. No sooner had he finished eating breakfast than he rushed out of the house. 82 IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS T Both of these phrases indicate that one thing follows quickly upon another. which literally means order or procedure is preceded by a pre-ỉ T form as in and is characteristic of formal or written usage rather than casual conversation. It might be translated as immediately upon to bring out its formal nuance. In casual conversation -ĩz T T as soon as this that is more common. Hoteru no heya no denwa-bango wakarimasu ka. Do you know the telephone number of your room at the hotel B t VTT ItÍL ẴẩìlAMỸ T h r r Mada wakaranai n desu keredo wakari-shidai sochira ni gorenraku shimasu no de. I don t know it yet but as soon as I do I ll let you know. A 3 Ima doko kara kakete ru no Where are you calling from r -Co Shinkansen no naka. Tõkyõ-ekỉ ni tsuitara sugu denwa suru kara mukae ni kite. From the Shinkan-sen bullet train . I ll call you as soon as I get to Tokyo Station so come and pick me up. In the above examples which involve
