
Japanese Titles/Honorifics!
#81
Posted 12 June 2007 - 10:27 PM
QUOTE (fyexchi @ Jun 12 2007, 03:38 AM) |
so... -chan=little girls -kun=guys.. what would i be called... (15 yr old girl) |
Depends who's saying it, since it reflects their relationship with you. Your grandma would probably still be calling you fyexchi-chan when you're 30...
The easy way to think of -chan is, would person X call person Y "dear" in English? If so, then they'd use -chan if they were Japanese. So women could probably get away with calling almost anyone -chan if they're the affectionate type, but a bloke would never use -chan with another bloke (unless they were gay!), they'd only use it with younger girls or small children.
In your case close friends would probably use -chan with you or else no honorific at all, other people would almost certainly use -san.
#82
Posted 13 June 2007 - 01:15 AM



#83
Posted 13 June 2007 - 04:25 AM
It's interesting to listen for use of honorifics (or lack of use) in anime, since it tells you how well they get along with one another, e.g. here's how it is between the girls in Lucky Star:

- I think Kagami and Konata are pretty typical of Japanese teenagers in not using honorifics within their own circle of friends.
- Tsukasa uses "chan" because she's a sweetie.
- Miyuki using "san" shows she's more formal or traditional.
- The fact that Konata and Miyuki both use a more respectful way of addressing one another than they do towards the twins suggests they don't know each other that well: Miyuki is on first-name terms with the twins (albeit with -san) but not with Konata, who she calls "Izumi-san".
#84
Posted 20 October 2007 - 08:39 AM

here it goes :
Here are the most common honorifics and terms of address.
Family terms are also common terms of address.
(Note: One may sometimes identify a person by taking the listener's point of view, as when a man refers to himself as "father" to his children.)
Ways of saying "you" and "I":
Me Again

Hope that helped you

sayonara
Moderator's Note: Please use the full line when typing sentences. Spacing fixed. Spoiler tags added to reduce the length of the post.
Edited by chiisai_hana, 20 October 2007 - 09:59 PM.
#85
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:08 AM
I cant find the options anywhere.
Thanks In Advance.
http://boards.fansub...t=0#entry280724


#86
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:20 AM
#87
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:21 AM
Also, once you reach a certain honorific I think it was -sama you could actually change it in the Edit Profile Info sction. Which would be the section right above your DoB section.
*edit*
Gah got ninja'd, but yeah that's pretty much the gist of it all.
Edited by Kid-Wolf, 28 January 2009 - 06:22 AM.

- Miko Miko Mode Oni Version
#88
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:28 AM

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
#89
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:29 AM
QUOTE (Kid-Wolf @ Jan 28 2009, 12:21 AM) |
Also, once you reach a certain honorific I think it was -sama you could actually change it in the Edit Profile Info sction. Which would be the section right above your DoB section. |
!!!

...lol
#90
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:31 AM
-edit
Actually do you know where I can find a list of the "ranks" all the way up to sama. (The FTV ranking ladder) Thanks. pretty curious hehe

http://boards.fansub...t=0#entry280724


#91
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:40 AM
QUOTE (eggy-san) |
!!! ohmy.gif !!! WHAT?! I never knew that!!! AH! All this time, I never knew!!! GAH!!!! ...lol |
QUOTE (prideless) |
Actually do you know where I can find a list of the "ranks" all the way up to sama. (The FTV ranking ladder) Thanks. pretty curious hehe tongue.gif |
It's
-chi
-chan
-san
-dono
-sama
Well this topic and the other one are more or less the same it's probably better to merge them so thread merged.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
#92
Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:00 AM
chi > chan > san > dono > sama
To become a rank you need to fulfil 2 conditions:
-chi = 10 posts AND 2.5 days old
-chan = 50 posts AND 12.5 days old
-san = 150 posts AND 37.5 days old
-dono = 500 posts AND 125 days old
-sama = 1000 posts AND 250 days old
I shouldn't be doing arithmetic at this hour!

#93
Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:00 AM
QUOTE (JunMisugi @ Jan 28 2009, 12:40 AM) |
No it's up to daft to decide who can customise his title here and who not, it's just like with the sempai and mods status. |
Oh, ok. Well, I guess I'm one of those people now. (BONUS!) haha, I just never bothered to check. Hmmm... I'll need to come up with something cool...
#94
Posted 04 May 2009 - 05:00 AM
QUOTE (hamasusuke @ Jun 25 2006, 09:56 PM) |
-chi, less commonly used, is addressing a somewhat newcomer to a certain group, such as yourself. |
umm not really.
"chi" is like a verson of chan
but like... more casuial
like yaya adresses amu as "amu-chi" (shugo chara(
and "noi-chi"(wallfolwer)
#95
Posted 04 May 2009 - 10:03 AM

- Miko Miko Mode Oni Version
#96
Posted 04 May 2009 - 10:14 AM
#97
Posted 04 May 2009 - 10:33 AM
QUOTE (Gustav1976 @ May 04 2009, 05:14 AM) |
isn't -kun used only if an intimate relationship such as family or childhood friend or lover is present.eg. I would call Kid-Wolf Wolfie-kun because it indicates that I know him almost as well as his family. |
No, -kun is used like -chan except for males. Teachers, when talking to/about one of their male students, will address them as ______-kun, as will students when talking about their classmates or underclassmen if they wouldn't otherwise use -san.
-kun is also used on girls sometimes if the girl is tomboyish, though this tends to be rare and generally only at the invitation of said girl.

#98
Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:30 PM

#99
Posted 05 May 2009 - 02:26 PM
QUOTE (Gustav1976 @ May 05 2009, 09:30 AM) |
It's all so confusing for me lol, anybody have some guidleines I could read through? I'm actually starting to make an effort on my japanese again ![]() |
#100
Posted 05 May 2009 - 07:25 PM
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