Male suffexes used in Azumanga daioh, It happens quite often

You know it occured to me that the girls quite often use Male suffexes towards each other.

The one who gets a male suffex added to her name the most often is Chiyo. Who has been called "Chiyo-suke" by Tomo, Yomi and Yukari. "-Suke" quite litterarly means "boy brat"

Then there's Tomo calling Yomi "Yomi-kun" in episode 17 "-Kun" is a suffex most commonly used with boys' names. For example in Cardcaptor Sakura, Fujitaka, Sakura's father, adresses his son Touya as "Touya-kun" and he adresses Yukito (who actually isn't a boy) as "Tsukishirou-kun" In Dragonball Z, Bulma keeps adressing Son Goku as "Son-kun" reffering him with his last name adding the boy suffex to adress the fact that he's several years younger than she is.

Must admit I didn't notice that...

Similarly, Hadzuki from Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito commonly refers to herself using "boku," which is slightly more on the masculine side. I've heard that it's becoming a trend in Japanese society, that girls are moving away from being all girly-girly in their speech patterns, so it's not so odd to see it often in anime.

You're forgetting someone else, too.

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In Fruits Basket, Shigure calles Tohru "Tohru-kun".

*Needs a lesson in name suffixes*

What my friend Adam told me is:

-chan = someone much younger than you
-san = younger, but not by much. High school student
-sempai = upper-classman
-sensei = master, teacher

My friend Adam also said that since I am 19, I would be referred to as "Travis-sempai"

am I correct in this? (perhaps i should take this to the "practice your japanese" thread?)

-chan: Used to address younger girls. Also used to address something/someone cute.
-kun: Used to addess younger boys.
-sempai: Used to address somebody respected, usally somebody older than yourself.
-sensei: Used to address somebody respected, usally somebody you work for.



That's as much as I know.

Thank you very much ^_^! I wasn't very far off... My friend Adam is 17, so I guess to him I would be a "sempai" then :P

*clicky*

You're forgetting someone else, too.

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Mine was just one example from many :P

Interesting. According to Del Rey, "dono" is higher in rank than "sama." But in this case, I'm more inclined to believe the native speaker. :P

I wonder if Poet knew that was the case too, since he was the one who started calling Tash "Sakaki-dono".

If people call me less than 'Sensei' then they regret it.



If I am in a bad mood only 'Sama' or higher will do. :ph34r:

Hallo Nagare-chan

Hallo Nagare-chan

:xd:



You will pay for this insolence!

Hallo Nagare-tan

Fixed.

Hallo Nagare-tan

Fixed.

What exactly does the -tan suffix mean? It wasn't in the aforementioned list. I'm kinda curious to know what I've been calling Skaro now. :xd:

-tan is a super-cute version of -chan. This is also true of -chin I believe.

I have heard that -tan is supposedly a little kid's way of saying "-chan", but I can't recall exactly where I heard it.... -chin (‚¿‚ñ) I don't know where that comes from, besides the way of writing it is very similar -chan (‚¿‚á‚ñ).

Also for tan, the 'ch' sound is part of the 't' column of kana, which is why it is writtin 'ti' in some romaji systems. And 'cha' is written as 'tya'.

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Stupid computer. To read the Japanese characters put the encoding to Shift-JIS... I may or may not fix it later today when I have my computer...

Also, as far as I am aware, Japanese doesn't have words, suffixes, and particles that are strictly masculine. They may be used primarily by/for men, but aren't limited to males.

This post has been edited by beowulf on Jun 23 2005, 01:12 PM

Isn't calling someone -chan when they're not supposed to, insulting? I think I read that up somewhere.

Yeah. It can be.