Meaning of お姉さん in Japanese
Japanese word definition and usage
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お姉さん, 御姉さんJLPT 5
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Kana Readingおねえさん
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Romajionēsan
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Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
- Meaning
- elder sister
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- Parts of speech
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- (vocative) young lady
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- Parts of speech
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- miss (referring to a waitress, etc.)
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- Parts of speech
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- ma'am (used by geisha to refer to their superiors)
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Example Sentences
お姉さん, 御姉さん, おねえさん used in context
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時に蓮、キミがね。お姉さんが手を取ってあげようか？毎年真っ先にはぐれるのは蓮だもんな。
By the way, Ren. Should I take your hand? Every year it's you who get separated right off.
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苦しかったらギブアップして、お姉さんのお願いを聞きなさいっ。
If you can't take it, give up and do what I, your older sister, asked of you.
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そのため、僕にとってのココは「遊び相手のお姉さん」で、家族のひとりとしての認識しかなく、親父に誰何するような存在ではなかった。
For that reason Coco was, to me, 'an older sister I can play with' and I thought of her only as one member of the family not as someone I should question my father concerning her identity.
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Kazuko really takes after her sister.
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She's Tom's sister.
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She is less beautiful than her sister.
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