katakana for foreign names

vocabulary

13 sentences

Foreign personal names are conventionally written in katakana in modern Japanese — マイケル (Michael), エミリー (Emily), ジョン (John), ベン (Ben), メアリー (Mary). One of katakana's primary jobs in modern writing; phonetic transcription rules vary slightly by source language. Common in translated materials and language-learning examples, often signaling that the sentence is a translation.

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