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The pluriels (don't know if it's spelled this way)

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Lostaholic
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The pluriels (don't know if it's spelled this way)

Postby Lostaholic » September 17th, 2007 9:15 am

we have

watashi
anata
kare/kanojo
watashi tachi
anata tachi
karera/kanojora

but I heard somewhere you can also say kare tachi and kanojo tachi, is that true?

greets tibo

Tom
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Postby Tom » September 17th, 2007 1:37 pm

I believe you can use -tachi on any word that refers to a person. I've heard sensei-tachi, gakusei-tachi, and yeah, kare-tachi, kanojo-tachi. I don't know whether that's correct in the strictest grammatical sense, but that's how it was explained to me in Japan. (I found that Japanese people aren't immune to the hard-to-explain-the-rules-of-your-native-language bug. ;) )
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Postby Lostaholic » September 17th, 2007 3:54 pm

Hehe ok thx! thats usefull information

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Postby Javizy » September 17th, 2007 5:09 pm

There's also an interesting use where -tachi is added to people's names to refer to the group, sort of like ...and co. For example, Sakura-tachi could mean Sakura and co.

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