Editing Japanese grammar (section)

===Grammatical case===
[[Grammatical case]]s in Japanese are marked by [[Japanese particles|particles]] placed after the nouns.<ref name="taro takahashi">{{cite book |last=Takahashi|first=Tarō|title=Nihongo no Bunpō|script-title=ja:日本語の文法|trans-title=A Japanese Grammar |year=2010|publisher=Hituzi Syobo Publishing|location=Japan |isbn=978-4-89476-244-2|page=27|display-authors=etal|language=ja |edition=4th}}</ref> A distinctive feature of Japanese is the presence of two cases which are roughly equivalent to the nominative case in other languages: one representing the [[Topic and comment|sentence topic]], other representing the subject. The most important case markers are the following:

* [[Nominative case|Nominative]] – {{nihongo||が|ga}} for subject, {{nihongo||は|wa}} for the [[Topic marker#Japanese: は|topic]]
* [[Genitive case|Genitive]] – {{nihongo||の|no}}
* [[Dative case|Dative]] – {{nihongo||に|ni}}
* [[Accusative case|Accusative]] – {{nihongo||を|o}}
* [[Lative case|Lative]] – {{nihongo||へ|e}}, used for destination direction (like in "to some place")
* [[Ablative case|Ablative]] – {{nihongo||から|kara}}, used for source direction (like in "from some place")
* [[Instrumental case|Instrumental]]/[[Locative case|Locative]] – {{nihongo||で|de}}