-san

See also: Variations of "san"

-san - English

Suffix

-san

  1. Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.

Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin:  (zh) (-sāng) (rare, usually translated with honorific titles as in English - Mr, Mrs, Miss)
  • French: -san (fr)
  • Japanese: さん (ja) (-san)
  • Korean:  (ko) (sang)
  • Russian: -сан (ru) m or f (-san)

Anagrams

-san - Azerbaijani

Verb

-san

  1. Form of -sən after the vowels A / I / O / U.

-san - Irish

Alternative forms

  • -sean (used after palatalized consonants and front vowels)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /sˠənˠ/

Suffix

-san

  1. emphatic suffix of the following persons; used after velarized consonants and back vowels
    1. third-person singular masculine
    2. 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 mhadrasanhis dog
    • a gcarr deargsantheir red car
  • Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
    • as-sanout of him
    • siadsan, iadsanthey, 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):
    • chualadarsanthey heard

Derived terms

Irish terms suffixed with -san

-san - Japanese

Romanization

-san

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さん

-san - Scottish Gaelic

Suffix

-san

  1. -self, -selves (emphatic)

Usage notes

Derived terms

Scottish Gaelic terms suffixed with -san
Meaning and Definition of -san
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