Hanamaruhanamaru

はい

yes

hai

JLPT
N3
Frequency
#2,233

Meanings

  1. 1
    yes; that is correctint
  2. 2
    understood; I see; OKint
  3. 3
    present; hereint

JMdict 1010080

In a sentence

はいyesわたしIけんじKenjiです

Yes, I'm Kenji.

How it works

(topic) raises わたし (I) as the topic — "as for me…". The name けんじ (Kenji) then fills the blank, closed off by polite です (is). (topic) introduces, です (is) affirms — the basic "A is B" frame, made polite.