How to use demonstrative pronouns in Japanese

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Japanese

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Japanese? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Japanese lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Japanese demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Japanese demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'kono' in Japanese.

Examples

kono teiburu
this table
kono otokonohito
this man
kono iši
this stone
kono hon
this book
kono onanoko
this girl
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Step 6 : Japanese demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns šomotsu, isu and doa (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Japanese demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Japanese demonstrative pronouns with the nouns šomotsu, isu and doa and the plural nouns šomotsu, isu and doa you can move on to Step 7 (Japanese adjectives).

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