いちにん
Meanings
Noun
1. one person
esp. 一人, 1人
2. being alone; being by oneself
when read as "ひとり"
3. being single; being unmarried
esp. 独り
when read as "ひとり"
Adverb
4. by oneself; alone
when read as "ひとり"
5. just; only; simply
with neg. sentence
when read as "ひとり"
Kanji used
person
Pitch accent
にん
Composed of
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
counter for people
Examples (62 in total)
Are you alone?
Are you alone now?
Are you still alone?
Were you here alone?
I only have one older sister.
Get on the bus one by one.
Tom is one of my roommates.
I am also a citizen of Tokyo.
He had one daughter.
I only have one younger sister.
She is one of my friends.
There came to Japan a foreigner.
One is Japanese and the other is Italian.
One of us will have to go.
A friend of mine came to see me.
One of the boys suddenly ran away.
Once there lived a great king.
There is no one reading in the library.
He is one of the candidates running for mayor.
One of the twins is alive, but the other is dead.
One of Tom's friends was killed in a traffic accident.
One is in Kumamoto and the other in Tokyo.
Only one little boy survived the traffic accident.
One of the men was wearing a blue sweatshirt.
The door opened and a man came out.
I have two brothers and one sister.
He has a son and two daughters.
Once there lived an old man in the village.
She has a son and two daughters.
I met an old man near the station.
The students stood up one by one and introduced themselves.
Jill is the only girl in our club.
There once lived a rich man in this town.
She had plenty of acquaintances, but no friends.
A boy was walking with his hands in his pockets.
One of them is an actor, who is going to pretend to murder someone.
He is among the best jazz singers.
One lives in Fukuoka, and the others live in Niigata.
Judy is the only woman on the board.
One out of three people in this city owns a car.
His wife bore him two daughters and a son.
They have four children: three girls and a boy.
Jim awoke and found himself alone in the room.
She had a daughter by her first husband.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Yesterday a pedestrian was run over by a truck at this pedestrian crossing.
A student raised his hand when the teacher finished the reading.
An old lady guided us through the castle.
One of her four sisters has passed away, but the others are still with us.
One in four consumers thinks that prices will continue to rise in the future.
She has two sons; one of them is a doctor, and the other is a dentist.
He has two daughters, one is a pianist and the other is a violinist.
I have three brothers. One lives in Japan and the other two live abroad.
She has three sisters: one is a nurse and the others are teachers.
One of his two daughters lives in Tokyo, and the other in Nara.
She asked me to write a letter to a friend of hers in Germany.
A girl drowned in the pond yesterday.
Today, one of every seven people in Western Europe is classified as elderly.
Every fifth person has a car in this country.
I have two brothers and a sister.
One of the children is studying, but the others are playing.
An ugly man knocked on my door.