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lesson

4


How to call someone (ضمير)

-ME (انا)
"WATASHI" (general, polite)
"BOKU" (for male only)
"ORE" (for male only- not polite -to friends only)

YOU(انتَ، انتِ)
"xx SAN" (if you know his/her name, it's better to use elder people or to who you don't know well)
"ANATA" (general..actually this is polite but depends on the situation, it doesn't sound polite)
"KIMI" (for younger people or friends)
(There's also "ANTA"(same as Arabic!!) but in Japanese language, this "ANTA" is not polite way, please be careful(It's used when someone try to fight/debate with someone else. However it's widely used when wife calls her husband, and in this case, this is NOT rude(not unpolite)..strange??)

-YOU (انتم، انتن)
"ANATA GATA" (polite)
"ANATA TACHI" (polite-to younger people)
"KIMI TACHI" (to younger people/friends)

-WE(نحن)
"WATASHI TACHI" (polite)
"WARE WARE" (usulally used only when we we call ourselves "officially")
"BOKU TACHI" (for young people-male only)
"BOKU RA" (less polite-male only)
"ORE TACHI" (among friends only-male only)
"ORE RA" (sounds less polite than "ORE TACHI"-male only)

-HE(هو)
"KARE"

-SHE(هي)
"KANOJO"

-THEY(هم)
"KARE TACHI"
"KARE RA"

-THEY(هن)
"KANOJO TACHI"
"KANOJO RA

desu=is, are, am..i.e. same as "be"
wa= there's no word in language(arabic) but it's important to construct sentence.


for example

watashi wa saher desu 'انا ساهر

Anata wa Ahmad desu (You are Ahmad)
Kare wa Abdullah desu (He is Abdullah)
Kanojo wa Maryam desu (She is Maryam)
Ahmad-san wa genki desu (Mr. Ahmad is fine)



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