kodomo ga sakenda.

It is read:

こども が さけんだ。

In rōmaji, that is:

kodomo ga sakenda

A more natural written version in Japanese would normally be:

子供が叫んだ。

Japanese is usually written without spaces, so the spaces here are just for learning.

が marks the subject of the sentence: the person or thing that did the action.

So in:

子供 が 叫んだ。

子供 is the one who shouted.

A very rough breakdown is:

• 子供 = child
• が = subject marker
• 叫んだ = shouted / cried out

Both can mark something important in the sentence, but they do different jobs.

• が marks the subject and often puts focus on who did it
• は marks the topic and often means as for...

So:

• 子供が叫んだ。 = The child shouted / It was the child who shouted
• 子供は叫んだ。 = As for the child, he/she shouted

In a simple sentence like this, が sounds very natural if you are just stating what happened or identifying who did it.

叫んだ is the plain past form of the verb 叫ぶ.

• Dictionary form: 叫ぶ = to shout / to cry out
• Plain past: 叫んだ = shouted / cried out

This is a casual, non-polite form. It is very common in everyday speech, stories, and narration.

The polite past would be:

叫びました

So the sentence could also be:

子供が叫びました。

This is a normal conjugation pattern for godan verbs ending in -ぶ.

For these verbs:

• ぶ
• む
• ぬ

the plain past form changes to んだ.

So:

• 叫ぶ → 叫んだ
• 読む → 読んだ
• 死ぬ → 死んだ

This is just a pattern you need to learn, but it becomes very familiar with practice.

It can depend on context.

子供 can mean:

• a child / the child
• children

Japanese often does not mark singular and plural as clearly as English does.

In this sentence, if the meaning shown to you is singular, then 子供 is being understood as child. If the context were different, it could possibly mean children.

If someone wanted to make plural clearer, they might say:

子供たち = children

No, Japanese does not use articles like English a and the.

So 子供 by itself can mean:

• a child
• the child

The context tells you which one sounds best in English.

That is why the same Japanese sentence may be translated in slightly different ways depending on the situation.

No. You may also see:

• 子供
• 子ども

Both are common.

Many people write 子ども because the ども part is often written in hiragana. But 子供 is also very common and completely standard.

So for a learner, it is good to recognize both.

It is plain style, which is often called casual style.

子供が叫んだ。 sounds like:

• casual speech
• a story
• narration
• a diary
• an informal description of what happened

The polite version is:

子供が叫びました。

Both are correct. The difference is mainly the level of politeness.

叫ぶ usually means something like:

• to shout
• to cry out
• to scream

The exact English word depends on context and tone.

For example:

• if someone yells loudly, shouted
• if someone suddenly cries out in fear or pain, cried out
• if it is intense or fearful, screamed

So 叫んだ has a range of possible English translations.

Yes, but Japanese word order is more flexible than English.

The basic order here is:

subject + が + verb

So:

子供が叫んだ。

That is very natural.

Because Japanese uses particles like が, the words can sometimes move around more than in English, but the most neutral order in a simple sentence like this is exactly what you see here.