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Disclaimer: I'm not a Japanese learner, but I'm attempting a translation of a
book, which has got a few examples in Japanese, among other languages, and I'd
like to use Japanese characters, beside the transcriptions made using the
English alphabet.

* * *

An English book I'm reading has an example in Japanese, but it renders it
using the English alphabet, splitting apart some "words" to highlight what
they mean in the sentence. To do so, it presents a table like this:

```

    Hanako   ga         susi    o         tabeta
    Hanako   SUBJECT    sushi   OBJECT    ate
    
```

the English meaning of the sentence being "Hanako ate the sushi".

My questions are:

  * can I render those individual 5 parts of the sentence with 5 (or more) individual characters?
  * And how do I put them together to get the whole sentence? As in, do I just put those characters side by side?
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How do I split "Hanako ate the sushi" at a grammatical level?
For your questions, yes and yes. The sentence would be the following

> 花子が寿司を食べた

Individually, the words are

> 花子Hanako がga 寿司sushi をo 食べたtabeta

But when you write them out in a sentence regularly, just like the above, no
space is needed and you write each word side by side.
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