我

• 読み: われ
• ローマ字: ware
• 漢字の分解: 我 (ga/ware) — I, self, oneself
• 発音: /ɰa.ɾe/

意味

I; oneself. A literary or emphatic first-person pronoun.

An old and formal pronoun for 'I' or 'oneself.' Rarely used in everyday conversation but common in proverbs, literary texts, and set expressions such as 我を忘れる (ware wo wasureru, to lose oneself) and 我に返る (ware ni kaeru, to come to one's senses). The compound 我々 (wareware) means 'we.'

例文

1. 我を忘れて夢中になった。
2. 我々はこの問題を解決しなければならない。
3. 我に返って周りを見た。

使い方ガイド

場面: literary, proverbs, formal speech, set expressions

トーン: literary

起源と歴史

From Old Japanese. The kanji 我 depicts a hand holding a weapon, originally meaning 'self' as a defender. One of the oldest first-person pronouns in the language.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal