What's left after you erase everything: しか

The picture You rub everything out with an eraser and one thing is still sitting there. Not "good, I still have this" but "this is all there is" — the picture has a hole in it. だけ draws its line and is done; しか counts what survived the erasing and quietly regrets that this is all there is.

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は wa Put up a sign before you speak: は Japanese 5 uses

が ga が is a finger, not a topic Japanese 5 uses

を o を is not the object marker. It is the path. Japanese 5 uses

に ni One arrow, one point: に Japanese 5 uses

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