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Appendix:Variations of "san" English Etymology en ja さん#Etymology_2 Mr, Ms san. Suffix en informal mostly Japanophilic slang Honorific ending used to indicate that a person is Japanese, talking with a Japanese, or treated like a Japanese. en August 1, 1983 Time (magazine) Time https://time.com/archive/6855177/japan-tanaka-sans-decline-and-rise/ Japan: Tanaka-San’s Decline and Rise 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20251207230354/https://time.com/archive/6855177/japan-tanaka-sans-decline-and-rise/ en December 16, 2008 w:Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122938932478509075 Barack Obama-san 1 5 July 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20150503234439/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122938932478509075 3 May 2015 en January 31, 2009 WalletPop http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/01/31/obama-san-presidents-book-of-speeches-is-a-huge-hit-in-japan Obama-san! President's book of speeches is a huge hit in Japan Beth Wechsler 1 13 July 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20090512161949/http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/01/31/obama-san-presidents-book-of-speeches-is-a-huge-hit-in-japan 12 May 2009 Related terms en Japayuki-san karayuki-san mama-san onee-san Translations Japanese honorific ending Arabic: ar سَان- -sān Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 桑 -sāng rare, usually translated with honorific titles as in English - Mr, Mrs, Miss French: fr -san Hindi: hi -सान Japanese: ja さん -san Korean: ko 상 Russian: ru -сан m f Thai: th ซัง Mr Ms Mrs Miss Mx Anagrams en ans ANS NAS NAs NSA SNA ans ans. Azerbaijani Suffix san sən az suffix Form of az -sən after the vowels A / I / O / U. Irish Alternative forms ga -sean used after palatalized consonants and front vowels Etymology From ga sga -som 3rd person singular masculine/neuter; 3rd person plural. Pronunciation ga /sˠən̪ˠ/ /sˠənˠ/ Suffix e emphatic suffix of the following persons; used after velarized consonants and back vowels third-person singular masculine third-person plural 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: ga a mhadrasan his dog ga a gcarr deargsan their red car Added to pronouns (both simple and prepositional) to add emphasis (not to create a reflexive pronoun): ga as-san out of him 1 ga siadsan, iadsan they, them Added to synthetic verb forms to add emphasis to the subject (third-person plural only as there are no third-person singular synthetic forms): ga chualadarsan they heard Derived terms ga See also Japanese Romanization さん Scottish Gaelic Etymology From gd sga -som 3rd person singular masculine/neuter; 3rd person plural. Suffix gd suffix emphatic suffixes -self, -selves emphatic 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). Derived terms gd See also gd -e gd -sa gd -se Uzbek Etymology uz chg سن sän, from uz trk-pro *sẹ *sẹ-n, oblique of trk-pro *sẹ you, thou. uz sen<t:you, thou><pos:second-person singular personal pronoun>. Cognate with ug ـسەن and otk 𐰾𐰤 sän. Compare also tyv сен; kk -сің / kk -сың, tr -sin / tr -sün / tr -sın / tr -sun, etc. Pronunciation uz uz -san Suffix uz suffix Forms the second-person singular personal predicative form of a noun: (you) are uz auxiliary Forms several tenses of a verb. See also uz -siz; uz -man, uz -miz; uz -dir