wakaranaikoto ga attara, kigaru ni kiite kudasai.

subject particle

Breakdown of wakaranaikoto ga attara, kigaru ni kiite kudasai.

• 聞きく: to ask
• ください: please
• 分わかる: to understand

Questions & Answers about wakaranaikoto ga attara, kigaru ni kiite kudasai.

Why is 分からない written with kanji here, and can it also be written as わからない?

Yes. 分からない and わからない both mean don’t understand / don’t know in this kind of sentence.

A few notes:

• 分かる is very often written in kana as わかる, especially in everyday writing.
• Writing it as 分かる / 分からない is also common and perfectly correct.
• The meaning does not change here.

So 分からないことがあったら and わからないことがあったら are basically the same.

What does 分からないこと mean literally?

Literally, it means a thing that is not understood or something you don’t understand.

Breakdown:

• 分からない = not understood / don’t understand
• こと = thing, matter, fact

So:

• 分からないこと = something you don’t understand
• In natural English: if there’s anything you don’t understand...

Here, こと turns the idea not understanding into a noun-like expression: things you don’t understand.

Why is the particle が used in 分からないことがあったら?