Apr 14, 2002 22:09
22 yrs ago
English term

Friend

Non-PRO English to Japanese Other
we are friends

Proposed translations

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友人 yuujin / 友達 tomodachi

"We are friends" would be:
私たちは、友達です。

But native Japanese don't use this expression very much. Instead, we say:

彼/彼女は、私の友人です。
He/She is my friend.
Peer comment(s):

agree swisstell
17 mins
agree Katalin Horváth McClure : Interestingly though, if you say "good friends", you use いい友達 (ii tomodachi) but you don't say いい友人 (ii yuujin).
28 mins
agree Kaori Myatt : I say いい友人。いい84d@y
3 hrs
agree Seiichi Inoue
4 hrs
agree LEXICON KK : for "good friends," you can also use 親友 [nuance of close, best friend(s)]
7 hrs
agree kotobuki
13 hrs
agree Yoko Emori
1 day 3 hrs
agree Naoki Chiba
1 day 11 hrs
agree nital yatin (X)
2 days 1 hr
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Graded automatically based on peer agreement. KudoZ."
5 hrs

みんな友達です。

みんな兄弟。。。みんな人間 this we is not minor but global group pronoun.
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