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What is the difference between the particles は and が? Typically, a text book will describe は as the topic marker, and が as the subject marker. This isn't wrong, but English speakers will have a different idea of what that means compared to how Japanese innately understand it. We will first cover the use cases of the particle は as it pertains to a topic marker.

• Use cases of は

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