Understanding the use of か


> 僕は山崎先生が昨日何を言ったか忘れてしまった

I don't understand what is that か doing in this sentence I mean, It should be
an を but there's already one but anyways I don't think this is related to the
problem




The way to break this sentence down is like this:

僕は [山崎先生が昨日何を言ったか] 忘れてしまった。 I forgot [what Yamazaki-sensei said yesterday].

The か marks the clause as an embedded question that the main verb bears on,
and this sentence is great example of the standard pattern. You usually don't
need を after an embedded question. Instead, you simply raise a question using
an informal sentence structure (no polite です・ます) and then comment on it.

Hope that helps!




The way to break this sentence down is like this:

僕は [山崎先生が昨日何を言ったか] 忘れてしまった。 I forgot [what Yamazaki-sensei said yesterday].

The か marks the clause as an embedded question that the main verb bears on,
and this sentence is great example of the standard pattern. You usually don't
need を after an embedded question. Instead, you simply raise a question using
an informal sentence structure (no polite です・ます) and then comment on it.

Hope that helps!

