カミングアウト

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English coming out.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) ミングアウト [kàmíńgú áꜜùtò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠mʲĩŋɡɯ̟ᵝ a̠ɯ̟ᵝto̞]

Noun edit

カミングアウト (kamingu auto

  1. (LGBT) coming out of the closet
    いきなりカミングアウト
    ikinari no kamingu auto
    sudden coming out

Verb edit

カミングアウトする (kamingu auto surusuru (stem カミングアウト (kamingu autosuru shi), past カミングアウトした (kamingu autosuru shita))

  1. (LGBT, intransitive) to come out of the closet
    ブログカミングアウトする
    burogu de kamingu auto suru
    to come out on one's blog
  2. (LGBT, transitive) to announce, as when coming out of the closet
    ゲイであることをカミングアウトする
    gei de aru koto o kamingu auto suru
    to come out as being gay
    (literally, “to coming out that one is gay”)
  3. (transitive) to reveal something secret about oneself
    どもりをカミングアウトすることのメリットを()って、()(ぢか)(ひと)にどもりがあると(つた)えていきましょう。
    Domori o kamingu auto suru koto no meritto o shitte, mijika na hito ni domori ga aru to tsutaete ikimashō.
    So we know there are many benefits of not hiding our stuttering. Let's bravely tell people around us that we have this problem.

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN