-san
See also: Appendix:Variations of "san"
English edit
Etymology edit
Suffix edit
-san
- Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.
- August 1, 1983, Time
- Tanaka-San’s Decline and Rise
- December 16, 2008 , Wall Street Journal, [1]
- Barack Obama-san
- January 31, 2009, WalletPop, [2]
- Obama-san! President's book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan
- August 1, 1983, Time
Related terms edit
Translations edit
Japanese honorific ending
Mr — see Mr
Ms — see Ms
Mrs — see Mrs
Miss — see Miss
Mx — see Mx
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Verb edit
preceding vowel | |
---|---|
A / I / O / U | E / Ə / İ / Ö / Ü |
-san | -sən |
-san
- Form of -sən after the vowels A / I / O / U.
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
- -sean (used after palatalized consonants and front vowels)
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-san
- emphatic suffix of the following persons; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
- third-person singular masculine
- third-person plural
Usage notes edit
Spelled with a hyphen after -s, otherwise without a hyphen.
- Added to nouns (or adjectives modifying a noun) in the presence of the possessive adjective to emphasize the possessor rather than the thing possessed:
- a mhadrasan ― his dog
- a gcarr deargsan ― their red car
- Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
- as-san ― out of him
- siadsan, iadsan ― they, them
- Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms):
- chualadarsan ― they heard
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
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Romanization edit
-san
Scottish Gaelic edit
Suffix edit
-san
Usage notes edit
- Added to prepositional pronouns to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun).
- Used in third-person singular masculine (eg aigesan).
- Used in third-person plural (eg orrasan).
- When the last letter of the prepositional pronoun is s, a hyphen is put before the suffix (eg leis-san).