Why do i see the japanese particle "wo" at the end of the sentence?

Question

Sometimes i see sentences with "wo" ending it. Why do people do this? Can anyone give me an explanation?

Answer 1

I've always thought of it as a style choice. (Try it when you can!) Some people choose to break up certain sentences and end it with "wo".

For example:
ゆっくり見てください。
このりんごを。

(Please look, slowly.
At this apple.)

The whole sentence should be:
このりんごをゆっくり見てください。

Or a slightly more complex example:

いつも考えている。
Itsumo kangaeteiru. (I'm always thinking.)

私の未来のこととか、大人になってから何が待っているとか、を。
Watashi no mirai no koto to ka, otona ni natte kara nani ga matteiru to ka, wo.
(About things like my future, about what's waiting for me after I become an adult.)

It gets harder the longer the sentence gets, but it's all a matter of connecting the "wo" to the verb.

Then again, you see it a lot in song titles. Without a verb. (Song titles like "Itsudemo Kimi no Koto wo" or "Sono Wake wo"are very common.) In these cases, you kind of have to fill in the blank yourself, usually based on the song, or based on what you already know.


Hope this helps!

Answer 2

nexcelio already posted very good answer for you, and reading these pages will be help you to understand Japanese, or the difference between English and Japanese:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinati...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_la...
(and if you also want to undestand Chinese languages or Vietnamese,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language
)

If you can use postpositions appropreately in Japanese sentece, the order of the words is not a problem. You might study Japanese by written sentences in the textbook first, but it is an artificial, a kind of laboratry language. Real Japanese (speaking Japanese), often appears in the lines of Manga, is more flexible like:
日本語の文章の中では、問題ではありませんよ語順は、あなたがもしも助詞を適切に...

So, there are many Japanese sentences which has "wo" in the end of itself, in fact.