
Questions & Answers about suyaki ga owatta.
It is read:
すやき が おわった。
- 素焼き(すやき)
- が
- 終わった(おわった)
Because 終わる is an intransitive verb.
In Japanese, with intransitive verbs, the thing that undergoes the change is often marked with が. Here, 素焼き is the thing that ended, so it takes が:
- 素焼きが終わった。 = The bisque firing ended / is finished.
If you used a transitive verb instead, you would usually use を:
- 素焼きを終えた。 = (Someone) finished the bisque firing.
So the sentence you have focuses on the event itself being over, not on a person actively finishing it.