お姉さん【おねえさん】
Frequency rank: 3,249.
- older sister; elder sisterhonorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageusu. お姉さんsee also 姉さん
- young ladyvocativesee also 姉さん
- missreferring to a waitress, etc.; usu. お姐さんsee also 姉さん
- ma'amused by geisha to refer to their superiors; usu. お姐さんsee also 姉さん
- older girl
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Forms
- お姉さん【おねえさん】Frequency rank: 3,249.
- お姐さん【おねえさん】
- 御姉さん【おねえさん】
- 御姐さん【おねえさん】
- おねえさんFrequency rank: 35,298. – 35,665.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- older sister; elder sister
- young lady
- miss
- ma'am
- older girl
Used to refer to a girl or woman who is older than the speaker.
Let's eat, older sister.
Used to respectfully address a young woman.
Young lady, may I help you?
Used to politely address a young unmarried woman.
Used to politely address a woman in a formal setting.
Ma'am, we have received your reservation.
Used to refer to a girl who is older than the speaker.
Generated collocations (experimental)
おねえさんお姉さんとよぶ呼ぶto call (someone) older sisterおねえさんお姉さんがいるto have an older sisterおねえさんお姉さんのともだち友達older sister's friendおねえさんお姉さんのようなひと人a person like an older sisterおねえさんお姉さんにそうだん相談するto consult with (one's) older sisterおねえさんお姉さんのいう言うとおり通りas (one's) older sister saysわかい若いおねえさんお姉さんyoung ladyおねえさんお姉さんにたのむ頼むto ask (one's) older sisterおねえさんお姉さんとあそぶ遊ぶto hang out with (one's) older sisterおねえさんお姉さんのせいでbecause of (one's) older sister
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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By the way, Ren. Should I take your hand? Every year you wander off.
If you can't take it, give up and do what I, your older sister, asked of you.
3. そのため、ぼく僕にとってのここココはきごう「あそびあいて遊び相手のおねえさんお姉さんきごう」で、かぞく家族のひとりとしてのにんしき認識しかなく、おやじ親父にすいか誰何するようなそんざい存在ではなかった。
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.
She wears the same kind of clothes as her sister wears.
I mistook you for your sister when I first saw you.