Illustration: At the open entrance of a modest Japanese home, an older resident welcomes a visiting couple. Standing comfortably within the threshold in house slippers, the resident places one hand against their own chest and extends the other toward the familiar interior with quiet pride.

JLPT N2pre-noun adjectivalLevel estimated by Bebop

我わが

waga

my, our, one’s own

This form is more formal than 私の or 私たちの. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. それは我わが社しゃの経営方針けいえいほうしんだ。

    That is one of our company’s management principles.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 我わが町まちの活気かっきは隣町となりまちに劣おとる。

    Our city’s activity is inferior to the neighboring city.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. ふと気きづくと、家いえにいたはずの我わが子こが消きえている。

    Then, before she knew it, her child, who was supposed to be in the house, disappeared.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 我

  • 我ego; IOnガKunわれ・わ・わが-

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