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"Is there money?"
Translation:お金はありますか？
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The use of は is pointing to the fact that "money" is the topic of the sentence, as in "(On the subject of) money, is there any?" が could instead be construed as "Do you have money?" or similar
for reference, if you are bringing up a topic, it should be は (as in questioning), if you are saying something related to your money が makes more sense.
So what you will usually see is 「お金はありますか？」for questions and「お金があります」for facts about yourself as in "I have money". However you can use both が and は in both cases, it just depends of the context and how do you wanna change a topic or not.
tyrant, you a gangsta - your commentary is always so helpful どもありがとうございます！
From what I read from other comments: は is used for marking the topic, of something that is already established, and が does the same but expresses a new idea, or adds new information. In this case money is something that is well established, while things like emotions and tastes require が.
Since this word is written with hiragana, we use the kun'yomi reading. Therefore it is おかね
Okappys is incorrect here. Since the two word examples they give are two kanji put together (jukugo) , both will receive an on'yomi reading.
金 is actually pronounced かね here, as V2Blast already mentioned, and the お is just an honorific at the beginning, not part of the word.
This sentence doesn't seem to fit any of the exceptions to the rule of があります. https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/arimasu-imasu-existence.html
Duolingo needs to ease up on how strict they are with particles. If I was having a regular conversation with a friend I wouldn't use a particle at all. So i t.f s not wrong to omit them. If I use the wrong one that's one thing.
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That depends on context. I am embedding in my mind what I learned from this discussion page and this lesson as a whole: が marks new information, and は marks the subject, which is already known about (presumably, or is simply not new information). For example, if in a bank, it would fit a context better if a question was お金はありますか, as it is not new information in the situation; usually a bank would have money, and this question is based on presumed knowledge. This is not a case of what a translation should be, and no language is truly like that, as some words or concepts are directly translatable. For example, Japanese has a concept for the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow and some for some other time period nouns: for us, we would say "the day after next week", while Japanese simply has 再来週 (さらいしゅう), a single word and not five. For another, the noun 明後日 (あさって) is "the day after tomorrow", still very wordy for us.
