わたし

私

I / me

watashi

Quiz

Episode 4· How to Ask "What Is This?" and "Whose Is It?" in Japanese
Episode 5· How to Say "That Hat's Mine Too" in Japanese

JLPT: N5
Frequency: #57

Meanings

1
I; mepronoun

JMdict 1311110

In a sentence

How it works

This is just two words held together by の (of): 私(わたし) (I) plus の (of) marks possession, so 私の(わたしの) (my) describes 番(ばん) (turn) — literally “my turn.” There's no verb and no です (is); the rising ？ (?) alone turns the bare noun phrase into a quick casual question, “my turn?”

Written with

私I7 strokes