
What Is Your Name in Japanese? Natural Ways to Ask and Reply
お名前は何ですか (onamae wa nan desu ka) is the polite way to ask someone’s name in Japanese.

お名前は何ですか (onamae wa nan desu ka) is the polite way to ask someone’s name in Japanese.

あれは何ですか (are wa nan desu ka) means “what is that?” for objects far from both speaker and listener.

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