When translating a text, do you use "we" or "i" or "you"?


I'm translating a random text our teacher gave us in school, but I never know
which subject I should use. For example, this is the first sentence of the
text:

> 小学生や中学生のころは、友達とお小遣いの話をよくしました。

I have no idea if I should translate the second sentence with I, you or we:
"In the times of primary and middle school, **I/we/you** talked with my
friends about pocket money a lot."

"we" as in "it is talked about" even though there´s no passive form of a verb.
"you" as in adressing the reader.

Plus, I'm translating it to a Slavic language (just in case anyone here is
familiar with that).

thanks!




Japanese pronouns tend to be inferred from context. Since there is no context
here it is impossible to know whether it should be I, we or you.

In real life, either in conversation or in a book you would never have just
this one sentence and so it would normally be pretty obvious which pronoun is
appropriate from what was said before.

Without the context, and if it makes sense, you should assume 'I' by default.

