-san

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1) Honorific ending used to indicate a person is Japanese or talking with Japanese, or treated like Japanese.
 * 2) * August 1, 1983,
 * Tanaka-San’s Decline and Rise
 * 1) * December 16, 2008 , ,
 * Barack Obama-san
 * 1) * January 31, 2009, WalletPop,
 * Obama-san! President's book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Russian:

Usage notes
Spelled with a hyphen after -s, otherwise without a hyphen.
 * Added to nouns (or adjectives modifying a noun) in the presence of the possessive adjective to emphasize the possessor rather than the thing possessed:
 * Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
 * Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms):
 * Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun):
 * Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms):
 * Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms):
 * Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms):

Suffix

 * 1) -self, -selves

Usage notes

 * Added to prepositional pronouns to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun).
 * Used in third-person singular masculine (eg aigesan).
 * Used in third-person plural (eg orrasan).
 * When the last letter of the prepositional pronoun is s, a hyphen is put before the suffix (eg leis-san).