Breakdown of nisesaito wa jouhourouei no genin da.
はwa
topic particle
のno
possessive case particle
だda
to be
原因genin
cause
Questions & Answers about nisesaito wa jouhourouei no genin da.
How do you read this sentence out loud?
A natural reading is:
偽サイトは情報漏洩の原因だ。
にせサイト は じょうほうろうえい の げんいん だ。
Word by word:
- 偽サイト = にせサイト = fake site / fraudulent website
- 情報漏洩 = じょうほうろうえい = information leak / data leak
- 原因 = げんいん = cause
- だ = plain-form is
Note that サイト is a katakana loanword from English site.
What does は do here, and why is it not が?
は marks the topic of the sentence.
So 偽サイトは means something like:
- as for fake sites, ...
- fake sites are ...
The sentence is presenting 偽サイト as the thing being talked about, then saying something about it:
- 偽サイトは情報漏洩の原因だ。
- Fake sites are a cause of information leaks.
If you used が, the nuance would change. が tends to mark the grammatical subject more directly and can sound more specific or contrastive depending on context. For a general statement like this, は is very natural.
What is the role of の in 情報漏洩の原因?
