やつがれ

Japanese

Alternative spelling
僕

Etymology

やつ (yatsu) + 彼(かれ) (kare). The kare changes to gare as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) やつがれ [yàtsúgáré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠t͡sɨɡa̠ɾe̞]

Pronoun

やつがれ • (yatsugare) ←やつがれ (yatugare)?

  1. (humble, men's speech, somewhat dated) I, me

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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