Demonstratives "point" on something or someone.
There are average demonstratives and some more due to the degree of "politeness".
They do not change the meaning, but they transport a nuance of "respect", that is
untranslatable ...
Personal Demonstratives
I
Average politeness:
- WATASHI (formally)
- WATAKUSHI (formally-hard)
Women´s talk:
Men´s talk, quite rough:
- BOKU (macho)
- ORE (macho)
- WASHI, WASHYA (old man)
- WARE (classic)
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You
Average politeness:
very polite, "You":
- KIDEN (in a letter)
- DENKA (addressing a lord)
- HEIKA (addressing the Tenno)
Men´s talk, quite rough:
- KIMI (friends, kids)
- ANTA (macho)
- OMAE (macho)
- TEMEE (very rough, insulting!)
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He / She / It
Average politeness:
- KARE = he (formally)
- KANOJO = she (formally)
- addressing in the third person form
= Tanaka-SAN = Mister Tanaka
- KORE = this, that (things, not for persons!)
very polite:
more distant:
- SONO KATA = he, she
- ANO KATA = he, she (looking down!)
- AITSU = he (very impolite)
- SORE = it, this
- ARE = it, that (impolite, quite dirty!)
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We
Average politeness:
Just add -TACHI:
- WATASHI-TACHI (formally)
- WATAKUSHI-TACHI (formally-hard)
Men´s talk, quite rough:
-TACHI, -RA or doubling:
- BOKU-TACHI, BOKU-RA
- ORE-TACHI, ORE-RA
- WASHI-RA
- WARE-WARE
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You (plural)
Average politeness:
Just add -TACHI
very polite, "You":
Men´s talk, quite rough:
- KIMI-TACHI, KIMI-RA (friends, kids)
- ANTA-RA (macho)
- OMAE-RA, , OMAE-TACHI, OMAI-RA (macho, insulting)
- TEMEE-RA (very rough, indeed!)
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They
Average politeness:
- KARE-RA = they (men)
- KANOJO-TACHI = they (women)
very polite:
more distant:
- SONO KATA-TACHI = they
- ANO KATA-TACHI = they (looking down!)
- SORE-RA = those things
- ARE-RA = That crap (impolite, quite dirty!)
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"Pointers"
There are three "types of distances": near, far, and absent (or being ignorable)
This
KONO
KONO HON = this book
KONO MONO = this thing
KONO KATA = this person
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That
SONO
SONO HON = that book
SONO MONO = that thing
SONO KATA = that person
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That (absent, downlooking)
ANO
ANO HON = that book
ANO MONO = that thing
ANO KATA = that one, that guy
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"Local Pointers"
Here
KOKO; KOCHI
KOKO NO HON = this book here
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There (near)
SOKO; SOCHI
SOKO NO HON = that book there
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There
ASOKO; ACHI
ASOKO NO HON = that book
ASOKO can also be translated politically correct as "the private parts": "down there" - ya know what I mean
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"Modal Pointers"
"Like this"
KOU
KOU IU NO KOTO = such a thing
KOU is short for KONO YOU NA/NO
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"Like that"
SOU
SOU IU NO KOTO = such a thing
SOU is short for SONO YOU NA/NO
SOU! is also "YES! Exactly!"
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