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Japan

Noun

Japanese nouns are also used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. Contrary to English,
Japanese nouns don’t accompany any articles, such as “a” and “the.”

Structure

Just like the Korean language, Japanese language also uses the SOV or the Subject + Object +
Verb pattern.

Pluralization

Japanese language lacks plurals in the English sense. Plural words are usually either preceded
with a number and a counter, or simply made understood through context.

Sometimes, they also add suffixes at the end of nouns to indicate quantity. But you are not
really required to use them even when you are referring to more than one instance of
something.
Filipino

Nouns

In Filipino, noun is called pangngalan. Just like the previous answers, it is also used to name a
person, thing, place, event, or phenomenon. Filipino nouns are used the same as English
nouns.

Tagalog nouns and English nouns or other languages have a lot in common.

Structure

The SVO pattern, which is used in English, is acceptable to use in Filipino. However, VSO or
the Verb-Subject-Object pattern sounds more correct most of the time. For example, if you
translate the sentence “I am studying Filipino.” into Filipino language using the SVO pattern, the
sentence would be “Ako ay nag-aaral ng Filipino.” Meanwhile, if we use the VSO pattern, the
sentence would be “Nag-aaral ako ng Filipino.”

Pluralization

In English when we want to indicate that there is more than one of something, we usually add
the letter -s to the end of the word. It is somehow similar to Filipino but it uses a different plural
marker. The language use the word “mga” to pluralize nouns. It is always placed directly before
the word that is to be pluralized. For example, there is more than one pillow. You can say “mga
unan.”