お茶は飲みません VS お茶を飲みません
どちらでもいいですか?
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Both sentences are correct.
は is a marker for emphasis which turns to mean "theme/topic", which happens to mean "subject". It is used by adding to other markers which you want to emphasize, like:
ここに本があります → ここには本があります。
あのひとと気があう → あの人とは気があう。
However, は disappears when it is added to the markers; が、を、and sometimes に
これがお茶です。→ (これがはお茶です)* → これはお茶です。
お茶を飲みません。→ (お茶をは飲みません)* → お茶は飲みません。
The sentence お茶は飲みません emphasizes お茶(を)、whick implies you drink other beverages like コーヒー、水、and so on, like:
お茶は飲みませんが、水なら飲みます/飲めます。
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は is used as the subject marker so the first sentence would be "The tea won't drink" which sounds weird because tea shouldn't be able to drink anything
を is used to mark the object which the verbs acts on so the second sentence would be "I won't drink tea" which makes much more sense. I added an I in the beginning of the sentence because the japanese sentence did not have a subject (I/he/she/it/they) which is a natural thing to do in japanese.
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