yaei wa abunai.

Camping in the wild is dangerous.

Breakdown of yaei wa abunai.

• は: topic particle
• 危あぶない: dangerous
• 野営やえい: camping in the wild

Questions & Answers about yaei wa abunai.

How do you read 野営は危ない?

It is read:

やえい は あぶない

• 野営 = やえい
• は = written ha but pronounced wa here because it is the topic particle
• 危ない = あぶない

So the whole sentence sounds like:

Yaei wa abunai.

What kind of word is 野営?

野営 is a noun meaning camping, encampment, or camping out in the open.

It is a bit more formal or literary than the everyday loanword キャンプ.

It can also behave like a verbal noun, so you may sometimes see:

• 野営する = to camp out / to bivouac

In this sentence, though, 野営 is simply the topic noun.

Why is は used here?

は marks the topic of the sentence.

So 野営は危ない means something like:

• As for camping out, it is dangerous
• Camping out is dangerous

The particle は does not directly mean is. It shows what the sentence is talking about.

Structure:

• 野営 = topic
• は = topic marker
• 危ない = dangerous

Why isn’t there a verb like is in the sentence?