お休みなさい

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やす
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of (o, honorific prefix) + 休み (yasumi, resting, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 休む yasumu, “to rest”) + なさい (nasai, polite imperative, from verb 為さる nasaru, an honorific replacement for する suru, “to do”).[1]

Pronunciation

Interjection

お休みなさい (hiragana おやすみなさい, rōmaji oyasumi nasai)

  1. good night
    • 竹久夢二, 《夜》
      幹子 (みきこ)は、寝床 (ねどこ) (なか)からお月様 (つきさま) (ほう) ()あげて「お月様 (つきさま)おやすみなさい
      そう ()って (まくら) (あたま)をつけて、お月様 (つきさま) ()ながら、お母様 (かあさま)子守唄 (こもりうた)をききました。
      Mikiko wa, nedoko no naka kara o-tsuki-sama no hō o miagete “o-tsuki-sama oyasumi nasai
      Sō itte makura ni atama o tsukete, o-tsuki-sama o minagara, o-kā-sama no komoriuta o kikimashita.
      Mikiko looked at the moon from her bed. "Goodnight, moon," Mikiko said, and rested her head on her pillow, listening to her mother's lullaby while gazing at the moon.

See also

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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