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- "There are five desks."
"There are five desks."
Translation:机が五つあります。
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が introduces it. If you use は you'd be talking about something pertinent to the conversation or already apparent not something that needs introduction. Five desks exist: が.
が also is an action enabler. The desks are existing so use use が to connect them to the verb あります. Just like 日本語が話せます; 日本語 is being introduced and it's doing the verb 話せます (being able to be spoken).
If you put は, as in 私は, then that is being made the topic of the sentence. 私は日本語が話せます: me (topic) japanese (doer) can be spoken (話せ is the potential form).
TLDR: use は to talk about something and が to say it's doing something.
This video says: "As the subject particle が indicates existence." Not that it's the only function.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quTMJXgcxN0&feature=youtu.be&t=37
I thought it was 五つの机があります, but there wasnt a の kana, is it still correct with the の In?
Why do you need to repeat tsuつ after い, つis not the small っthat act just as a short pause like the other numbers like 3, 4, 6, 8 ?
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https://origamijapan.net/origami/2019/05/30/count-old-number/
| Number | Old | New |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ひとつ | ひとつ |
| 2 | ふたつ | ふたつ |
| 3 | みつ | みっつ |
| 4 | よつ | よっつ |
| 5 | いつつ | いつつ |
| 6 | むつ | むっつ |
| 7 | ななつ | ななつ |
| 8 | やつ | やっつ |
| 9 | ここのつ | ここのつ |
| 10 | とを | とお |
Basically for 1 to 9, modern Japanese adds small っ to make the readings at least 3 syllables. いつつ is what was spoken in old Japanese, and it got unchanged in modern Japanese.
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in this case, つ is the counter, and when using the general counter つ the numbers 1-10 are a little different. When using つ as a counter, 5 is not ご but いつ. Therefore, 5 things becomes いつ+つ. That's why there are two つ's.
Why does が switch places in the other sentences? Sometimes it's テーブルが五つあります and other times it's 机四つがあります. Am I reading something wrong?
