【What is your name?】Let’s learn how to make a sentence to ask somebody’s name in Japanese.

On this page, you can learn how to ask somebody’s name in Japanese.

Key Sentence

• English: What is your name?
• Kana and Kanji: お名前は（何ですか）。
• Romaji: o na ma e wa ( na n de su ka )

One by one

• お → no meaning
• 名前（な・まえ） → name
• は → no meaning
• 何（なん） → what
• です → is
• か → ?

Note 1

You don’t have to translate ‘your’ into Japanese.

Note 2

You can ask other things with the sentence pattern.

Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

• What is your name?
• What is your job?

Task 2: Change into English.

• しゅみは何ですか。
• お名前は何ですか。

Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.