夜(よる) yoruだった datta。 It was night. Literal Night was. About as minimal as a Japanese sentence gets. Common as an opening line in novels and narrative fiction — scene-setting with a bare copula. Topic も particle omitted entirely. nightliteratureminimalist scene-setting
夜(よる) yoruだった datta。 It was night. Literal Night was. About as minimal as a Japanese sentence gets. Common as an opening line in novels and narrative fiction — scene-setting with a bare copula. Topic も particle omitted entirely. nightliteratureminimalist scene-setting