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“Mō sukoshi “No, thanks.”

meshiagarimasen ka.”
“Won’t you have a little
more (to eat)?”

9.22. The specific plural

In general, singular and plural are not distinguished in
Japanese: hon means ‘book’ or ‘books’ and kore means ‘this’

or ‘these.’ There are, however, ways to make specific plurals
for certain nouns, and these are in common use, particularly

for the equivalents of English pronouns. There is the

following set of suffixes:

HUMBLE NEUTRAL EXALTED
-domo -tachi -gata

These occur in the following combinations:

wata(ku)shi-tachi we (neutral)

wata(ku)shi-domo we (honorific =
humble)

anata-tachi you all (neutral)

anata-gata you all (honorific