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paul
paul asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

how do you say " I am " in Japanese?

Update:

but isn't watashi wa female?

what does boku wa mean?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Watashi wa Yamada desu.

    I am Yamada [my name is Yamada]

    Boku is usually said by men. (talk between close friends)

    Girls that say "boku" tend to be tomboys. Girls that are not tomboys hardly say "boku".

    Watashi is the standard way of saying "I"/"Me"/"My"/"Mine". "Watashi" is one of the least formal ways.

  • Belie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Watashi wa

  • ?
    1 decade ago

    私は　watashi wa (which is just I because wa is only a particle that establishes the subject of a sentence [what you are talking about because for the grammatical subject there's another particle: ga が] and the verb to be is for every person: desu (です)。

    I guess it depends on what you want to say. Just a generic "I am" maybe can be translated as 私は　watashi wa. :)

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