Breakdown of kyou wa shigoto o hayame ni sumasete, ie de yukkuri shimasu.
はwa
topic particle
をo
direct object particle
今日kyou
today
家ie
home
Questions & Answers about kyou wa shigoto o hayame ni sumasete, ie de yukkuri shimasu.
Why does the sentence use は after 今日 (今日は)? Why not が?
は marks 今日 as the topic of the sentence: “As for today… / Today…”.
The speaker is setting up “today” as the frame, and then saying what will happen regarding today.
- 今日は: “As for today, I will finish work early and relax at home.”
- If you said 今日が仕事を早めに済ませて…, it would sound ungrammatical here, because が usually marks the subject of a verb, and 今日 is not the subject of 済ませて or します (the unspoken “I” is).
Why is 仕事 followed by を (仕事を)? What does を do here?
を marks the direct object of a verb.
- 仕事を早めに済ませて
→ 仕事 (work) is the thing that gets 済ませる (finished).
So the structure is:
- 仕事を済ませる = to finish one’s work
- 早めに modifies 済ませる (“finish early”), but 仕事 is still the object, so it takes を.
What is 早めに exactly? How is it different from just 早く?
