Tonada

Japanese word

さん

In your course · Chapter 2
Part of speech
affix
Level
A1
Frequency
No. 28 in the course corpus

Meanings

  1. Mr./Ms. (after another person's name)
  2. acid
  3. sourness
  4. sour taste
  5. three
  6. 3
  7. praise
  8. tribute
  9. inscription (on a painting)

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Examples

  • やまださんはせんせいですか

    Mr. Yamada, are you a teacher?

  • ジョンさんはアメリカじんです

    John is American.

  • エマさんはイギリスからきました

    Emma came from the UK.

  • マイクさんはロンドンにすんでいます

    Mike lives in London.

  • サラさんはフランスごをはなします

    Sarah speaks French.

  • ゆきさんは日本語が上手です

    Yuki is good at Japanese.

  • サラさんはカナダからきました

    Sarah came from Canada.

  • ジョンさんはイギリスからきました

    John came from the UK.

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Sources and licences

  • Tonada course content (words, example sentences and their translations).
  • JMdict/EDICT, Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group — CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence)

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