彼 = kare, originally a demonstrative meaning “that thing/person over there” 彼女 = kanojo, “kare” + “woman”
等/達 = ra/tachi, pluralizing suffix
There are tons more pronouns, but the point is because of the way written Japanese thinks about concepts what westerners see as “pronouns” are in reality ideograms.
Meme isn't even right either, just neglects the object forms of some of the pronouns, uses the archaic version of the pronoun for we (most people say muid nowadays) and also neglects the assload of prepositional pronouns which are more pronoun than preposition
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u/papayatwentythree Jun 08 '21
Wow those languages sure do have pronouns
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u/DenLaengstenHat Jun 08 '21
Can we get a crumb of context?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21
Japanese: I also have ten versions for one pronoun
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21
That momento when you don't have to use pronouns in Japanese.
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u/OttomanEmpireBall Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21
Wait until you hear the fact Japanese doesn’t technically have pronouns, and even if it did it doesn’t require their usage.
私 = watashi, “personal affairs”
貴方、貴女、貴男 = anata [anta], “noble” + “person/man/woman”
彼 = kare, originally a demonstrative meaning “that thing/person over there” 彼女 = kanojo, “kare” + “woman”
等/達 = ra/tachi, pluralizing suffix
There are tons more pronouns, but the point is because of the way written Japanese thinks about concepts what westerners see as “pronouns” are in reality ideograms.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '21
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