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To begin we will start with the sentance for 'My name is Sasuke', in japanese this is as follows: Watashi no namae wa Sasuke desu. Note: The exact translation of this 'My name Sasuke is' which is because the Japanese language user a different sentence structure than we are used to in English. |
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@xxkyo | 10 August 06 |
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I will now explain each part of the sentence above in more detail. The first word used is 'Watashi' on its own this means 'I' however combined with 'no' to make 'Watashi no' it means 'My', next we have 'namae' which is self explainitory (it means name !), we now have the name of the person (in this case Sasuke) in between 'wa' and 'desu' which togeather mean 'is' (in this sort of sentence these two words can also mean 'am' or 'are'), if there is no 'desu' at the end of the sentence it means 'is not'.
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@xxkyo | 10 August 06 |
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Namae - name, watashi - I, watashi no - my, watashi ne - me, watashi no mono - mine, anata - you, anata no - your, anata no mono - yours, nani - what, no - of, gakusei - student, sensei - teacher.
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@xxkyo | 10 August 06 |
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To help understand the sentence structure mose we will create a new sentence with the words above this time, 'What is your name?', in Japanese this is as follows: Anata no namae wa nani desu ka ? Studying the above sentence and the sentence for 'My name is Sasuke' you can start to see the basic sentence structure which follows the form '{subject}... wm {item/name} desu/desu ka?'. Where {subject} is the person you are talking about e.g. My (Watashi no), the word 'wa' indicates the preceding word is the subject. {item/name} could be for example 'Sasuke' if you are telling someone your name. Below I have included some more examples of how this sort of sentance could be used: Watashi wa Amerika-jin desu - I am American. Anata wa Naruto desu ka ? - Are you Naruto ? Watashi wa gakusei desu - I am a student.
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@xxkyo | 11 August 06 |
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You can use and easyer way to introduce yourself: Watashi wa {name} desu
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@eeep | 11 December 06 |
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Oi. Nice explanation, but i'm sure i've seen the exact same explanation on some site on the internet. Some dbz naruto site. Watashi no namae wa saru desu.
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@xxkyo | 20 December 06 |
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type that in google and u will found :D
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@nary101 | 21 December 06 |
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konnichiwa!O-genki desu ka?Watashi namae wa Nary desu.
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@peppy | 8 October 07 |
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Hi xxkyo, watashi wa georgia desu
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@dennis01 | 18 December 07 |
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Watashi no namea dennis desu
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@dennis01 | 18 December 07 |
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Genki wa desu
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@dennis01 | 18 December 07 |
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Watashi no namea dennis desu
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@minmei | 27 April 08 |
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Konnichiwa! Watashi no namae wa Minmei desu. Watashi wa sensei desu. Lookin 4ward 2 learning more. Domo arigato.
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@shizuko | 17 June 08 |
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I'll introduce myself.hajimemabad, watashi no namae wa Kawamura Shizuko desu. Watashi wa koukou no seito,3 nensei to jyuunana sai desu. Douzo yoroshiku...
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@zeriicho | 15 October 08 |
 konnichi wa minnasan! watashi no namae wa zerii desu. nihonjin janai demo nihonggo wakarimasu.. sukoshi desu.. im a filipina nd i study nihonggo.. thats why.
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@ajibayu | 6 March 09 |
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Moshi moshi. Hajime mabad watashi wa namae wa aji desu. Watashi wa seito de 17sai de 3 nensei desu. Douzo yoroshiku.
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