This site is intended as a learning tool for intermediate Japanese learners. Enter Japanese text and hit 'Analyze' and it will automatically be split into bunsetsus and morphemes using the amazing MeCab tool, created by Taku Kudo.

What's a bunsetsu? In Japanese, 文節bunsetsu are clauses that typically consist of a content word + one or more grammatical particles. You can think of a sentence as a collection of bunsetsus. By splitting the text into bunsetsus, we can analyze it in more bite-sized chunks.

What's a morpheme? Morphemes are the smallest units of a language that can be considered to have their own meaning. For example, the word "dogs" in English contains the morpheme "dog" and the plural marker morpheme "s." On this site, you can click on each morpheme to learn more information about them.

Is this tool 100% accurate? No, unfortunately the analysis will sometimes make mistakes. It may especially make mistakes in interpreting names as traditional nouns.