[Serie: All About Japanese Particles]

Note: Men tend to use the forms mono ka and mon ka, women mono desu ka and  mon desu ka.

1. Emphasizes a determination not to do something by means of a rhetorical question.

あんな所、もう行くもんか。
Anna tokoro, mō iku mon ka.
I wouldn’t be caught dead going there again.

あんな人一緒に仕事ができるもんですか。
Anna hito to issho ni shigoto da dekiru mon desu ka.
I wouldn’t work with her again if my life depended on it.

– Source: All about particles – A handbook of Japanese function words –

Introduction

In this book, I propose to clarify the functions of a considerable number of particles, to describe their various usages, and, most important, to exemplify each and every usage with sample sentences. Only in this way through context can the student truly come to grips with the Japanese particle. Difficulty level:

All About Japanese Particles: に (ni) – 2

All About Japanese Particles: ものか (mono ka)

All About Japanese Particles: ぞ (zo)

All About Japanese Particles: ぜ (ze)

All About Japanese Particles: もの (mono)

All About Japanese Particles: い (-i)