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Second-Person Pronouns: あなた

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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Is Anata Polite or Rude?

Anottha was originally used for a thing or place that was far away. When you say anata, it's kind of like how in japanese to day we have cono, sono, ano, and ten a is for far away things,. We actually had sonata and conata backin telays to. And i guess some long time ago or something. It has that negative joni a, ok, weird. Well, google is theyre they're doing their best. Good job, google, god job. Actually, that's something a. One of the characters from evangelion says, baca jona anta, paca anta pacaj

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