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  • Learning that there is no word for “it” was one of the biggest challenges for me when I first started learning Japanese.

    In English, there is never an implied subject (grammatically speaking), unlike in many other languages.

    I don’t know if this helps explain it to him, but it could help him to understand the concept. Verbs always need a subject, and if you contextually know what that subject is, you can use “it” (or he, her, etc) instead of being more specific.

    “Raining” could be a full sentence in some languages, but in English, you need to specify that the weather is raining, but we can just say “it is raining”.

    I’m a little surprised that your boyfriend didn’t learn this while he was learning the language. Did he self-learn? Going through a book on English grammar might be helpful for him.





















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