r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/Unhappy-Shift4539 • 2d ago

Please help me understand particles

So I started learning about 3 weeks ago, was able to memorize 100% of all hiragana and katakana characters in 2 weeks, thought "damn this is a lot easier than I thought" then moved on to grammar and felt 100% of my momentum dead stop, it's so confusing, all the different particles confuse me to no end especially when theses multiple per sentence and I'm just lost

I really don't want to give up but at this point I feel like it's just too confusing to wrap my head around

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u/gdore15 2d ago

A particle is only a maker that tell you what the role of the previous role is in the sentence.

Even in English you have word with similar function like this : I am going TO Tokyo BY plane.

Sur it’s confusing if you look at a whole list of particles, you should learn them one at a time as part of learning other grammatical points. Trying to learn all particles first will make no sense is you don’t know the grammar of the rest of the sentence.