Sentence/Writing/Pronouns

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Sentence Structure

First off, our English sentence structure goes like
Subject-verb-direct object Japanese structure goes like
Subject-direct object-verb Well, first before the first thing, the basics. Consider the sentence

Watashi no takaramono Watashi means me, myself, and
I. "no" in this case shows possesion, so "I" turns
into "my" and takara means trasure, mono: item. put
together it's treasured item, so the English counterpart
is "My treasured item"(which I just thought of from the 3rd beginning song of Ranma 1/2)

Now, here's a sentance that would follow the Japanese sentance structure

Watashi wa gakkou e ikimasu. Watashi in this case
means "I" and "wa" is the particle that denotes that the
word "Watashi" is the sentance, ?kimasu" means ?
o?? and "e" shows that "gakou," or school, is the
place where the subject went to.

Pronouns

watakushi - formal I
watashi - standard I
atashi - young woman's I
ore - informal men's I
boku - I for kids or when you're being submissive
sessha - this unworthy one
washi - used by old people

anata - formal you, or beloved if used between a married couple
kimi - standard you
omae - casual men's you
onushi - you used by old people
temee - rude version of you
kisama - really rude version of you

Hiragana

Hiragana is the Japanese native script and consists of 46 basic characters. Hiragana is a syllabary rather than an alphabet (ka, ki, ko, ku, etc.) so English words cannot be neatly transcribed into Hiragana or vice versa. "Romanji" is the Japanese term for native words written in the English alphabet. Several systems exists for transcribing Japanese words into English script, the most common of which is the Hepburn system.

Katakana

Katakana is also 46 characters and has the same sounds as Hiragana, but is used primarily for writing foreign words and for emphasis (similar to the way we use bold or italic characters).

Kanji

Kanji are Chinese characters that have been adapted for the Japanese language. There are literally thousands of different Kanji, and much of Japanese is written in them. Kanji are often used for proper nouns (such as names and places) and also distinguish between homonyms (which are very common in Japanese)

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