-san
See also: Appendix:Variations of "san"
English
Etymology
Suffix
-san
- Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.
Translations
Japanese honorific ending
Mr — see Mr
Ms — see Ms
Mrs — see Mrs
Miss — see Miss
Mx — see Mx
Anagrams
Irish
Alternative forms
- -sean (used after palatalized consonants and front vowels)
Pronunciation
Suffix
-san
- emphatic suffix of the following persons; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
- third-person singular masculine
- third-person plural
Usage notes
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
Related terms
Japanese
Romanization
-san
Scottish Gaelic
Suffix
-san
Usage notes
- 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).
Derived terms
See also
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Japanese
- English terms derived from Japanese
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish suffixes
- Irish emphatic suffixes
- Irish terms with usage examples
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic suffixes