In Japan, mobile phones (a.k.a. cell phones), can be used for more than just calling people. Japanese use their mobile phones to send email to each other. And this has been happening much longer than it has in the United States. But another feature is the ability to take pictures with the mobile phone. And recently these types of mobile phones have become increasingly better at taking very nice high resolution pictures. So one of my students showed me he bought a new phone and said,

This phone can be used as a regular camera.

which comes to today’s blog post on how to use the preposition “as“. as is used to explain what something can be like or similar to. So in the example above, the phone is like a camera. In Japanese, the equivalent is yo na ような.

Here is another example:

My car can be used as a tool to take me from here to my in-laws house.
Similarly, you can use the word “like” to mean the same thing as “as”. This would sentence would be re-written as

My car is like a tool that takes me from here to my in-laws house.

Note: The word “in-laws” refers to the parents of your husband or wife.

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