Why The kanji 上 which means above,up,over comes before everything else?
上のフロアにキッチンがあります。which means (There is a kitchen on the floor above.)
Am I complicating something just because I’m not understading that there’s different ways to read this phrase?
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Because in this sentence:
山の上でヨガをしたいね。(I want to do yoga on top of a mountain.) Why doesn’t the 上 comes before everything here too?
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Like, could I say translating the phrase more closer to what I think it looks like, **(Upstairs there’s a kitchen**) also correct?
Also, the last sentence, could I also read that sentence as **(At the Mountain’s top I want to do yoga?**) too?
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I know this has probably asked dozens over the last 5 years here, but just wanted to be sure about this, because I was not getting closer to an explanation searching in internet.
2 comments
It can mean upper or top
Upper floor
Mountain top
You’re overthinking this, it’s a normal word with different usages
Also it’s not a kanji it’s a word, kanji don’t get used in sentences in some independent fashion. Yes it’s a word made out of a single kanji character, but it’s like talking about the “letter I” instead of the “word I” in the sentence “I like pie”
Pay attention to where の is. That will determine whether 上 is being used like an adjective or if it is belonging to something.
上のフロア – upper floor
山の上 – mountain’s upper part (top of the mountain)