私
わたし
hepburn watashi
I, me
Part of speech · pronoun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 私は学生です。I am a student.
- 私の本はどこですか。Where is my book?
Collocations
私は私の私たち私には私が
Mnemonic
私 watashi — the polite default first-person pronoun. Casual masculine alternative is boku (僕), casual feminine is atashi (あたし). Use 私 in business, classroom, polite contexts.
Quick check
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