汝が

Japanese
Kanji in this term
汝
な
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology

Old Japanese [Term?], from 汝 (“thou”, archaic second person singular pronoun) +‎ が (archaic genitive marker). 汝 took the reading nare as a free morpheme, but na if followed by ga. See also 我が (a ga, wa ga, “my”) and 誰が (ta ga, “whose”).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) な​が [náꜜ gà] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA(key): [na̠ ɡa̠]

Phrase

汝(な)が • (na ga) 

  1. (archaic) Synonym of あなたの (anata no) or synonym of おまえの (omae no, “your”)
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