1. Japanese personal pronouns.

2. What is a pronoun?
Pronouns are words that we use to talk about people, animals, places or other things.
Some examples: he, she, it, they, I, me, etc.

3. What is a personal pronoun?
Personal pronouns are words that we use to talk about OURSELVES.
They are: I, me, my & mine.

4. Japanese personal pronouns.
They are different to English personal pronouns because they are GENDER-MARKED.
This means that boys use one kind of personal pronouns that girls can’t use.
So what are they?
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5. For girls:
WATASHI= I/me.
WATASHINO= my.

6. For boys:
BOKU= I/me.
BOKUNO= my.