あなた

Japanese

kanjitab
Definitions
  • you second-person pronoun
  • (women's speech) dear, darling, sweetheart term used by a wife to address her husband
  • (sort=あなた) that person far from both speaker and listener
  • (sort=あなた) that direction, that side, that place far from both speaker and listener

Etymology

Compound from Japanese あ (that, yon) + Japanese あれ (side, place, ja-r, direction)+ Japanese that + Japanese あそこ + Japanese there + Japanese な (of)+ Japanese の (possessive particle, of, 's, possessive marker, genitive case marker, month, bird, s)+ Japanese た (area, place).

Origin

Japanese

た

Gloss

area, place

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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