Japanese Grammar: List Of Pronouns For New Beginners
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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.
| **English** | **Kanji** | **Katakana/Hiragana** | **Romaji** |
| I(formal) | 私 | わたし | *Watashi* |
| I(men) | 僕 | ぼく | *Boku* |
| I(girls, women) | あたし | *Atashi* | |
| I(rough, men) | 俺 | おれ | *Ore* |
| You | あなた | *Anata* | |
| You(less formal) | 君 | きみ | *Kimi* |
| You(informal, men) | お 前 | おまえ | *Omae* |
| You(rude) | あんた | *Anta* | |
| He | 彼 | かれ | *Kare* |
| She | 彼 女 | かのじょ | *Kanojo* |
| He/She | あの人 | *Ano hito* | |
| He/She | あの方 | *Ano hō* | |
| We | 私たち | *Watashi-tachi* | |
| They | 彼 ら | かれら | *Karera* |
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.
