Japanese lesson number 2, pronouns

Kombanwa mina-san! Good evening everyone!

Jeremi Desu Yo! It's Jeremy!

O-genki desu ka? How are you?

Prrroooonouns!

Welcome to lesson number, 2!

In this Japanese lesson we'll be going over, an essential aspect

of any language, pronouns!

This lesson won't be as long, I can hear much sighs of relief as I say this,

hehe ^^

We touched slightly on pronouns in the previous lesson, but I'd really just like

to clarify and expand on pronouns.

In order to say "I.." You'd say "Watashi...".

In order to say "My..", You'd say "Watashi no...".

What does the "no" do, exactly?

"No" is a possesive particle, and so changes

pronouns accordingly.

To say "You" You'd say "Anata...."

In order to say "Your",

you just need to add the possesive particle "no",

so, like this, "Anata no".

To say "We.." You'd say "Watashi tachi..."

To say "us", you need to add the possesive particle so it would be "Watashi tachi no"

Tachi is a word which helps to make a sentence plural.

So, to say "You (plural)" you'd say "Anata tachi" (It's sort of like saying "You guys...")

Ok, and so , can you guess how we would say, our, then?

Yes, you'd say "Watashi tachi NO...",

because "our" requires the possesive particle "no"

Now, moving on to gender specific pronouns!

To say "He", we'd say "Kare",

of course to make this into "His" we need to add

a possesive particle so, "Kare no".

To say "She", we'd say "Kanojo",

likewise to make this into "Hers" we need to add

another possesive particle, so, "Kanojo no"

Arigatou gozaimashita! (Thank you very much!)

I hope you enjoyed that lesson, there's hundreds on the way!

Oyasuminasai! (Goodnight)

Jeremi desu yo