

Meanings
- 1surname; family name; last namenoun
JMdict 1604730
In a sentence
What's your last name?
How it works
は (topic) raises 名字 (surname) as the topic — “as for your surname…”. The question word 何 (what) fills the slot you want answered, the polite です (is) ties it together, and the final か (question) makes it a question. Word order puts the question word inside the sentence, not up front like English.