| Subject | English | Japanese |
| obs. | prt indicates a question | や spec1 |
| gen. | prt indicates a question | か spec1 was written as 歟; used at sentence-end (sometimes rhetorical) |
| gen. | indicates a rhetorical question | て spec1 abbr. for と, というのは and other similar combinations |
| gen. | indicates a rhetorical question | って spec1 |