Japanese pronouns (代名詞, daimeishi) are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people...

a pronoun is "you", which can be either singular or plural. Sub-types include personal and possessive pronouns, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, demonstrative...

to their relationship. Aizuchi Honorific speech in Japanese Etiquette in Japan Japanese pronouns Zen ranks and hierarchy T–V distinction (politeness...

translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies...

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third...

themselves, etc.). English intensive pronouns, used for emphasis, take the same form. In generative grammar, a reflexive pronoun is an anaphor that must be bound...

Swahili, Bemba, and Luganda. By contrast, Japanese pronouns are an open class and nouns become used as pronouns with some frequency; a recent example is...

de hanashitekuremasen ka?) Japanese exhibits pronoun avoidance, meaning that using pronouns is often too direct in Japanese, and considered offensive or...

Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century)....

used jibun as a first-person pronoun, while trans men preferred boku. Japanese pronouns Gender-neutral pronoun: Japanese Language and gender Nyōbō kotoba...