
Questions & Answers about sentei ga owatta.
It is read:
- 剪定 = せんてい
- が = が
- 終わった = おわった
So the full sentence is:
- せんてい が おわった。
剪定 means pruning, especially of trees, shrubs, or garden plants.
It is a somewhat formal or technical word compared with everyday words like 切る or 刈る. You will often see it in gardening, landscaping, or agriculture contexts.
Because 終わる is an intransitive verb, meaning to end or to be finished.
In this sentence, 剪定 is the thing that ended, so it takes が:
- 剪定が終わった = The pruning ended / The pruning is finished
A useful contrast is:
- 剪定が終わった = the pruning ended
- 剪定を終えた = someone finished the pruning
So が marks the thing that is in the state of being over.