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わし: I (old man)

Character speech · 01 I and you

First-person pronoun of elderly men, professors and sages.

Written わし or 儂. Typical with 〜じゃ and 〜のう. Also used regionally by older men in western Japan. A young man using it sounds old-fashioned or comic.

Examples

I am an old man now.

When I was young, I was poor.

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