Usage/context of 「私ね…」


Surely the biggest issue here is that I'm trying to learn usage from anime
dialogue, which should almost always be taken with the biggest grain of salt
possible. But it comes up often enough that it's at least a trope, if not a
common real-world usage, and I haven't been able to figure this out.

Individually, I know what `私` ("I") and `ね` (often a particle for "right?", or
"hey") mean. But when they are combined at the beginning of a sentence, simply
combining those meanings seems insufficient to explain what's being
communicated.

Usually it comes up when a female character is talking about herself,
confiding in a close friend, sounding something like わたしね{LLLH}. In fact,
right after writing this, I happened across an example 19 seconds into episode
17 of 四月は君の嘘, when Kaori says 「私ね{あたしね}...」, trailing off right before the
theme song starts.

Not sure if more details are needed, but I will certainly make clarifying
edits in response to comments, so fire away!




This type of ね is a filler particle meaning nothing. Such fillers can appear
in many places within a sentence. ね is one of the typical "girly" filler
particles.

You don't have to translate them, although English fillers such as "you know"
or "er" may be used if you fell they're appropriate.

See the following answers, which are closely related.

  * <https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14924/5010>
  * <https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/27628/5010>




This type of ね is a filler particle meaning nothing. Such fillers can appear
in many places within a sentence. ね is one of the typical "girly" filler
particles.

You don't have to translate them, although English fillers such as "you know"
or "er" may be used if you fell they're appropriate.

See the following answers, which are closely related.

  * <https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14924/5010>
  * <https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/27628/5010>

