How do I use the Japanese pseudo-verb "nowa"? I heard that it's similar in a way to the pseudo-verb "koto".

That is a pretty complicated question i will try my best to explain.

As i am sure you know, "koto" means "thing" in Japanese and when put after a verb it turns it into a noun and is often followed by "ga" and then another verb. like:

(suru) + koto + ga + dekimasu = Able to do

(nomu) + koto + ga + arimasu = has the ability to drink

But!

When talking about " nowa"and "dewa" the best way to think of them is as already mentioned. It is hard to put just one case to each of them as a lot of times they are used in multiple ways...it is best to just read read read and continue reading and learning through the context of what you read.

Here are some of the common uses of "nowa" and "dewa"

noha:

you take "no" the possesive particle and the stuff before it as one thought. THEN you look at "wa (ha)" and think of it as modifying what goes after the "ha". It is different from "koto" in that you are looking at everything before the "no" as opposed to "koto" where you look at just the verb before it.

deha:

Is seen a lot to signal negation or an interjection or can be broken up similarly to "noha"

I suggest using this site for specific examples:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

There are other combinations of particles but most of them have that same implication.

You take the first one of the two and think of what ever is before that as something that gets "attached" to the meaning of that particle.

Then, you look at what is after the "ha" to know how to direct it.

I suggest reading more on indefinite pronouns.

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Perhaps this page could help you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles

But how I see it is the wa is it makes things the topic of the sentence. In normal grammar you use no, de, and he, but since you're talking OF it and it's the topic of your sentence, you tack on wa to let your audience know that you're not the topic (since you often exclude watashi wa), but what you just said is.

No nominalizes a sentence, de pinpoints the location or means of something, and he the destined location. Adding wa makes the stuff you said before either one of those three particles your topic.

For people still not advance in Japanese grammar, it's acceptable to mess up/not use these correctly. If you say "umi de oyogu wa muzukashii" it would still be understandable that your meaning is of "swimming in the ocean is difficult".

It's similar to when a non-native speaker leaves out "a" or "the" when speaking English. We can still understand the sentence.

I suppose koto is like no since it helps to nominalize the sentence too.