
にほんご
日本語
Japanese
nihongo
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にほんご
Japanese
nihongo
JMdict 1464530

にほんご日本語Japaneseがすこし少しa littleわかりますunderstand
With わかる (understand), the thing understood is treated as the subject, so が (subject) marks 日本語 (Japanese) — literally “Japanese is clear (to me)”. The adverb 少し (a little) drops in just before the verb to soften it. The verb takes the polite form わかります (understand, polite), and the speaker “I” is left unsaid — context carries it.