N5 grammar

〜を

wo

Marking the direct object

Formation

を marks the thing a verb acts on: what you eat, buy, read, open. It attaches straight to the noun and sits in front of the verb phrase. If a verb takes an object at all, を is the particle it takes.

Examples

〜を is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Could we have a fork?

  2. I watch my weight very carefully.

  3. Let's do some boxing.

  4. I burned my hand with an iron.

  5. Have you ever seen a kangaroo?

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.