私わたくし
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Meanings
Pronoun
1. I; me (usu. more formal than わたし)
No-adjective
Noun
2. personal (affairs, etc.); private
Noun
3. selfishness; partiality
4. secrecy; confidentiality
Kanji used
Pitch accent
わたくし
Used in vocabulary
私わたくし小しょう説せつ
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
Noun
私わたくし宛あて
addressed to me; for me
No-adjective
Examples6
I wore sunglasses to protect my eyes from the sun.
I don't know how to swim.
No, it's a national treasure, you see. This is the first time we've seen it as well.
The dean sighed and said: "I think that this woman is perhaps... my own cousin".
I was too astonished to speak.
I had to fill the gap left when our head clerk quit on short notice.