Japanese Lessons #2: Basic Sentence Structure

The word order of a Japanese sentence is different from English. In Japanese, the verb is normally placed at the end of the sentence. Japanese is a Subject-Object-Verb language while English is a Subject-Verb-Object language.

Japanese basic sentence structure:
S - O - V

友達が映画を見ました。
ともだちがえいがをみました
Tomodachi ga eiga wo mimashita.
(Friend movie watched)

tomodachi - subject
eiga - object
mimashita - verb

English basic sentence structure:
S - V -O

My friend watched a movie.

friend - subject
watched - verb
movie - object

Vocabulary:
tomodachi - friend
eiga - movie
mimashita - past tense of miru (to see, to watch, to look, to view)