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Topic Marker は

Learn how は marks the topic and frames what the sentence is about.

Recognize は as the topic markerRead simple topic-comment sentence patternsUnderstand why は is read as wa in this role

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What the topic does

The particle は introduces the topic, the thing the sentence is talking about. In this use it is pronounced wa, even though the kana is written は.

わたしはがくせいです。

I am a student.

The sentence is about わたし.

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このほんはおもしろいです。

This book is interesting.

The sentence is about このほん.

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