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| rowspan="2"| A
| colspan="2" align="center"| B |
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| rowspan="2" colspan="2" align="center"| F |
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| colspan="3" align="center"| H |
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!Level of speech and comments !Other meanings |
| colspan=5 | - I - |
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| watakushi
|わたくし |私 |very formal |private |
| watashi
|わたし |私 |formal | |
| atashi
|あたし | |informal, women | |
| boku
|ぼく |僕 |informal, men |servant (archaic) |
| ore
|おれ |俺 |very informal, men | |
| (own name)
| | |informal, small children (cute speech) | |
| uchi
|うち |家 |informal, mostly young girls |one's own, can also mean house |
| colspan=5 | - you (singular) - |
| (name and honorific)
| | |formality depends on the honorific used | |
| anata
|あなた |貴方 (rarely used) |formal |also used by wives to address their husbands |
| anta
|あんた | |informal, mostly used by women | |
| kimi
|きみ |君 |informal, to subordinates; can also be affectionate; formerly very polite | |
| omae
|おまえ |お前 |very informal, generally used by men | |
| temee
|てめえ |手前 |very rude and confrontational | |
| kisama
|きさま |貴様 |historically very formal, now extremely hostile and rude | |
| colspan=5 | - he / she - |
| ano kata
|あのかた |あの方 |very formal | |
| ano hito
|あのひと |あの人 |formal |lit. 'that person' |
| yatsu
|やつ |奴 |informal |a thing (very informal) |
| aitsu
|あいつ |彼奴 (rarely used) |very informal, often hostile | |
| colspan=5 | - he - |
| kare
|かれ |彼 |formal (affectionate) and informal (usually neutral) | |
| kareshi
|かれし |彼氏 |formal (neutral) and informal (boyfriend) |lover |
| colspan=5 | - she - |
| kanojo
|かのじょ |彼女 |formal (neutral) and informal (girlfriend) | |
| colspan=5 | - it - |
| no direct equivalent
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| colspan=5 | - we - |
| | |formal (私達, watashi-tachi) | |
| | |humble (私ども, watashi-domo) | |
| | |very informal (俺ら, ore-ra) | |
| hei-sha
|へいしゃ |弊社 |formal and humble, used when representing one's own company | |
| waga-sha
|わがしゃ |我が社 |formal, used when representing one's own company | |
| colspan=5 | - you (plural) - |
| | |formal (あなた達, anata-tachi), or informal and friendly (君たち, kimi-tachi) | |
| | |very informal, can be hostile (お前ら, omae-ra) | |
| on-sha
|おんしゃ |御社 |formal, used to the listener representing his company | |
| ki-sha
|きしゃ |貴社 |formal, similar to 'onsha' | |
| colspan=5 | - they - |
| kare-ra
|かれら |彼等 |used mainly in writing | |
| | |used in spoken Japanese (あの人たち, ano hito-tachi, 彼女たち, kanojo-tachi) | |
| | |very informal (奴ら, yatsu-ra, あいつら, aitsu-ra) | |
| colspan=5 | - notable others - |
| ware-ware
|われわれ |我々 |formal "We," Mostly used when speaking on behalf of a company or group | |
| atai
|あたい | |archaic feminine "I", corruption of atashi (あたし) | |
| sessha
|せっしゃ |拙者 |archaic "I" | |
| nanji
|なんじ |汝 |archaic "you", often translated as "thou" | |
| waga-hai
|わがはい |我が輩 |old, rarely used "I" | |