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 Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:17 pm
What does it mean when you say a person's name and then add '-o' at the end? I was watching Final Fantasy: Advent Children in Japanese and one of the girls calls one of the guys by his name and adds the '-o'.
Please and thank you!
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:01 pm
I don't know if this is why, but similar to the female suffix "ko", boy's names often end in "o" (usually writen with the character otoko, which means male). Hayao, Akio, Masao are all common names. Now, if the characters name doesn't end in an "o", maybe the girl calling him that is kind of emphasising his "guy-ness," like how guys in America will call each other by their last name. But as far as I know (which isn't too far) it's not one of common suffix like -san, -chan, -kun, -sama, etc.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:21 am
Okay, thank you so much Freakezette! ^^
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:55 am
Nami` What does it mean when you say a person's name and then add '-o' at the end? I was watching Final Fantasy: Advent Children in Japanese and one of the girls calls one of the guys by his name and adds the '-o'. Please and thank you! Hm? Which guy? If it's Cloud, people keep calling him 'Kuraudo' because that's how the word is pronounced in Japanese. Every Japanese syllable (besides 'n') ends in a vowel, so there's no way to say his name without sticking on some sort of vowel sound at the end. That's just the way the language works!
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