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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Hiragana character 2.2.1 Related terms 2.3 Particle 2.3.1 See also 2.4 Noun 2.4.1 See also 2.5 Kanji reading 2.5.1 On-reading of:

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
が Unicode: U+304CKatakana: ガHepburn romanization: gaNihon-shiki romanization: gaPolivanov cyrillization: гаJapanese braille: ⠐⠡

[edit] Syllable

が

1. The hiragana syllable か with a dakuten.

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[edit] Etymology

Derived from か by addition of dakuten.

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が (romaji ga)

1. The /ga/ syllable.
2. The voiced form of か. This is the first voiced hiragana character; the next is ぎ. The equivalent katakana character is ガ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with が (ga), see: Special:Allpages/が

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が (romaji ga)

1. が: Indicates the subject of a sentence.
   • 猫が餌を食べた。

     ねこがえさをたべた。

     Neko ga esa o tabeta.

     The cat [is the thing that] ate the cat food.

2. が: conjunction ("but")
   • 犬は好きだが、猫は嫌いだ。

     いぬはすきだが、ねこはきらいだ。

     Inu wa suki da ga, neko wa kirai da.

     I like dogs but I hate cats.

3. が or ヶ: Historical possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ.
   • 我々が心

     われわれがこころ

     wareware ga kokoro

     our [collective] heart

   • 富士見ヶ丘

     ふじみがおか

     Fujimi ga Oka

     Fuji View Hill

   • 関ヶ原

     せきがはら

     Seki ga hara

     Gateway Plains (site of the w:Battle of Sekigahara)

[edit] See also

• ぎゃ (gya)
• Korean: 이 (i), 가 (ka)
• は
• 気がある (きがある, ki ga aru)

[edit] Noun

が (romaji ga)

1. 蛾: moth

[edit] See also

• 蝶々 (ちょうちょ, chōcho)
• 蝶 (ちょう, chō)
• 毛虫 (kemushi)

[edit] Kanji reading

が (romaji ga)

[edit] On-reading of:

• 我: ego