What's the definition of "subject" in japanese?


In spanish, the subject is "a syntactic function, the element of the sentence
that matchs in number and gender with the verb". In japanese, verbs arent
affected by the subject (in number or gender) . As a spanish speaker, I really
dont like the spanish definition because it doesnt help to understand the
language at all, moreover, it seems to justify some sentence constructions
that after comparing them with other languages you start to find odd and in
some senses non-sensicals, and that over-complicate the language. When we were
in primary school, we were introduced to another , now obsolete or perhaps
always considered wrong definition of subject that made more sense and helped
to understand languages. So my question is, what's the definition of subject
in japanese? I would like to see if it is something more congruent with the
idea most people have of what's the subject of the sentence and not something
like our official spanish definition




In Japanese, the subject is something that precedes the subject-marker
particle が, and is the thing or person described by the predicate. However,
the subject is not the most important part of a sentence. Japanese is a topic-
prominent language, and the **topic** , marked by は, is often what we really
care about; this is also why sometimes が and は are interchangeable (i.e. when
the topic is the subject).




In Japanese, the subject is something that precedes the subject-marker
particle が, and is the thing or person described by the predicate. However,
the subject is not the most important part of a sentence. Japanese is a topic-
prominent language, and the **topic** , marked by は, is often what we really
care about; this is also why sometimes が and は are interchangeable (i.e. when
the topic is the subject).

