kaze ga tsuyoi hi wa, sentakumono ga hayaku kawaku.

topic particle

Breakdown of kaze ga tsuyoi hi wa, sentakumono ga hayaku kawaku.

• が: subject particle
• 日ひ: day
• 早はやく: quickly

Questions & Answers about kaze ga tsuyoi hi wa, sentakumono ga hayaku kawaku.

How is 風が強い日 put together grammatically?

It is a clause + noun pattern:

• 風が強い = the wind is strong
• 日 = day

So 風が強い日 literally means a day when the wind is strong.

A key point for English speakers: Japanese puts the describing clause before the noun. There is no word like when, that, or which here.

So the structure is:

• [風が強い] 日
• [the wind is strong] day

This is one of the most common Japanese patterns for making expressions like the person who came, the book I bought, the day when it rained, etc.

Why is there が after 風 instead of は?

Here, 風 is the subject of the small clause 風が強い.

• 風が強い = the wind is strong

Using が is the normal, neutral choice inside this kind of noun-modifying clause.

If you used は instead, it would sound much more marked or contrastive, and in this sentence it would not be the natural way to say it.

So for a learner, the safest takeaway is:

• X が adjective/noun/verb + noun is a very common pattern
• 風が強い日 = a day when the wind is strong

Why is 日 followed by は?