が (8)
Con verbos potenciales

Significado (8):

Los verbos potenciales expresan lo que sabemos hacer y lo que podemos hacer.

Algo que podemos o sabemos hacer no es un acto voluntario, es un estado.

Los verbos potenciales marcan el complemento directo con が

Indicates Ability

Another time to use the が particle is when you have a can-do attitude!

All joking aside, in Japanese there are a couple of ways to express that a person can do something, and we want to use today’s particle in these cases.

The first hint is simply with the verb できる (dekiru) for “can do” that gets added on to a lot of different situations.

沖縄でゴルフができる。

okinawa de gorufu ga dekiru.

You can play golf in Okinawa.

But as I am sure you know, there is another way to say “can” in Japanese that is more common. It is to conjugate the verb in the sentence to its potential form.

For Ejemplo, the verb 読む (yomu) means “to read” and we can change it into 読める (yomeru) which means “can read” and is this potential form that I mentioned.

日本語が読める。

nihongo ga yomeru.

(I) can read Japanese.

Also, something that might not quite be as obvious is that the Japanese word わかる (wakaru) means “to understand” and this word can be used with languages to indicate a person’s ability with the language.

This means that when we say “He knows Spanish” we are also saying “He can speak/understand Spanish” which then means we need to use the が particle.

スペイン語がわかります。

supeingo ga wakarimasu.

(He) understands Spanish.

Ejemplo:

1. 漢字が読めます。
kanji ga yomemasu
Se leer kanji

2. ｱﾘｽは漢字が書けます
gakusei wa kanji ga kakemasu
El estudiante sabe escribir kanji

3. 日本語が話せません。
nihongo ga hanasemasen
No sé hablar en japonés

kimi

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Indicates Ability