How do you say "What is your personality?" in Japanese?

In Japanese, "What is your personality?" is どんな性格ですか? (donna seikaku desu ka ?). It is a phrase.

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Pronunciation

どんな性格ですか? is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as donna seikaku desu ka ?, it sounds roughly like "doh-n-nah seh-ee-kah-koo deh-soo kah ?" to an English ear.

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Questions about どんな性格ですか?

How do you pronounce どんな性格ですか??

どんな性格ですか? is romanised as donna seikaku desu ka ?. Say it roughly like "doh-n-nah seh-ee-kah-koo deh-soo kah ?" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.

Is どんな性格ですか? formal or casual?

どんな性格ですか? is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.

How is どんな性格ですか? written in Japanese?

どんな性格ですか? is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.

This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.