あの

How to remember it

Points to something distant from both speaker and listener.

Example sentences

• あの人は誰ですか。

  あのひとはだれですか。

  Who is that person over there?

• あの、ちょっとよろしいですか。

  あの、ちょっとよろしいですか。

  Um, may I have a moment?

Usage

As a demonstrative it modifies a noun; alone it becomes the filler "um."

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