Japanese Grammar: List Of Pronouns For New Beginners

Definition: A pronoun is a word that takes the place os a noun. However some pronouns are used as adjectives, modifying the meaning of a noun rather than replacing it.

Types of pronouns:

• Subject Pronouns
• Direct Object Pronouns
• Indirect Objects Pronouns

Subject Pronouns: Japanese Subject Pronouns are frecuently omitted when it's not easy to guesswho is being referred to. Futhermore, second-person an third-person are seldom or never used, especially to address a superior, because it carries an rude tone. In general, the name of a person or one's occupation is followeb by the polite suffix さん -San wich is commonly used intead of a personal pronoun.

Personal Pronouns in Japanese refer to people, not ideas or things.

Examples

• How are you?
• あ な た は ど の よ う に?
• *Anata wa dono yō ni.*

• I went to Tokyo last month.
• 私 は 先 月 東 京 #12395;行 っ て き ま し た.
• Watashi wa sengetsu Tōkyō ni itte kimashita.

• How old is she?
• 彼 女 は 古 い で す か ？.
• Kanojo wa furuidesu ka?

• He is a man with a sense of humor.
• 彼 は ユ ー モ ア の セ ン ス を 持 つ 男 で す
• Kare wa yūmoa no sensu o motsu otokodesu.

• We want to buy a car.
• 私 た ち は 車 を 購 入 し た い
• Watashi-tachi wa kuruma o kōnyū shitai.

• They will travel to Japan.
• 彼 ら は 日 本 を 訪 問 す る.
• Karera wa Nippon o hōmon suru.