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Second-Person Pronouns: あなた

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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How to Achieve Directness in Japanese

annat ta was a way to avoid expressing the directness, i guess. But overtime, once it started being used as a second person pronoun, you know, like these days, we don't even think about how it meant,. It's just like, in our head it's tu you. So it's kind of acquired that directness and then lost politeness. Endit up neutral.

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