SOV word order

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What is SOV word order?

SOV is the subject-object-verb word order, in which the verb comes last, as in Japanese, Korean and Mongolian.

SOV is the most common basic word order among the world's languages. SOV languages usually also use postpositions instead of prepositions and put modifiers before nouns. Because Japanese and Korean both follow this pattern, their sentence structure lines up remarkably well.

Examples

私はりんごを食べる watashi wa ringo o taberu (I apple eat); 저는 사과를 먹어요 jeoneun sagwareul meogeoyo (I apple eat)

Kungfucius says: In Japanese you only learn what happened at the very end. Every sentence is a cliffhanger.