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Second-Person Pronouns: あなた

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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How to Write Anata in English

You can't just say, tatas, who rigt right? Say, anataba taras yo. You need e classification for thaar. Another example is to tell a story to somebody. M like we do tat in english, to recreate a past situation or hypothetical m situation or conversation. Think they use anata there, even though they're referring directly to her. Maybe they don't know her name and she's using a user name. It's usually like, you surname really like generic.

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