kabin o tsukuru.

direct object particle

Breakdown of kabin o tsukuru.

• 作つくる: to make
• 花瓶かびん: a flower vase

Questions & Answers about kabin o tsukuru.

How do you read 花瓶 を 作る。?

It is read:

かびん を つくる。

• 花瓶 = かびん
• を is the object marker particle, pronounced お
• 作る = つくる

So the full reading is かびんをつくる.

What does the particle を do here?

を marks the direct object of the verb.

In 花瓶 を 作る, the thing being made is 花瓶. So:

• 花瓶 = the thing affected by the action
• 作る = the action, to make

A helpful way to think about it is:

• X を 作る = make X

So 花瓶を作る means make a vase.

Why is を written wo in romanization but pronounced o?

This is a very common question.

The particle is historically wo, so many romanization systems write it as wo. But in modern standard Japanese, when it is used as a particle, it is pronounced お.

So:

• written in kana: を
• often romanized: wo
• actually pronounced: o

That is why 花瓶を作る is pronounced かびんをつくる, but in speech it sounds like かびんおつくる.

Why does the sentence end with 作る instead of putting the verb earlier like in English?