This document provides information about the Japanese particle しか. It is used to indicate the sole exception in a statement and is followed by a negation. Common usage is with the phrase "~しか~ない" which means "there is only ~". An example is given where しか is used to say that there are only 100 people in a town.

1. Lower Intermediate
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2. しか
● A binding particle to indicate the sole
exception
o Example:
教室には山田先生しかいませんでした
。
“There was nobody in the classroom but
professor Yamada”

3. Use
● Follows nouns, plain form of verbs,
particle forms of adjectives.
● The word after しかis always a negation.
● Common form:
o 「～しか～ない」

4. Example
この村には、１００人しか人がいない。
In this town, there are only 100 people.