#13: Experiment utilizing digital currency to quickly give citizens money

A step towards digital 📱? Japan is still mostly a 💸 society so it’ll be interesting to see how fast this transition will happen.

じっけん
実験
experiment

 り  よう
利用する実験
A use experiment

• Whenever you see a plain/casual/dictionary form of a verb in front of a noun, the verb or verb phrase modifies that noun. In other words, it’s giving more details!
• You can think of it as answering the question: what kind of experiment?

つう  か
通貨を利用する実験
Experiment where they utilize currency

• The particle を marks the noun that is being acted on by the subject/topic.
• Someone is doing something (the verb) to something (the noun).

デジタル通貨を利用する実験
Experiment where they utilize digital currency

わた
渡すためにデジタル通貨を利用する実験
Experiment utilizing digital currency in order to give

When ために follows a verb, it is saying “for doing ___” or “so that they will do _____”.

　かね
お金を渡すためにデジタル通貨を利用する実験
Experiment utilizing digital currency in order to give money

Words for things that deserve respect or have great importance are preceded by お when the word is of Japanese origin.

はや
早くお金を渡すためにデジタル通貨を利用する実験
Experiment utilizing digital currency in order to quickly give money

When an い-adjective is used as an adverb, the last い in the word becomes く.

 し  みん
市民に早くお金を渡すためにデジタル通貨を利用する実験
Experiment utilizing digital currency to quickly give citizens money

• The particle に stands for ‘in,’ ‘at,’ ‘on’ or ‘to.’
• In the context of this sentence, ‘to’ makes the most sense.