► 名詞
父 [(1)ちち] [liter] meaning: father rank: 1
☆ 父の日の贈り物 ⇨ A father’s-day gift
☆ 私の父は警察官だった ⇨ My father was a police officer (☛ The most common term for a adult to refer to own father. NEVER used to refer to someone else’s father)
More examples:
- 父さん！ ⇨ Dad!
- 先生の御父上は御元気にされていますか？ ⇨ Is your esteemed father doing well?
- 父親が兵役に行って子供達は寂しがっている ⇨ The father is gone for military duty and the kids are missing him
- 彼は父親の工場を手伝っている ⇨ He is helping his father’s factory
- あの狸親父が！ ⇨ That old fucker!
- 優しくて力持ちのお父さん ⇨ Dad who is sweet and strong
- 彼は父親のことを煙たがっている ⇨ He is feeling a generation gap with his father and avoiding him
- 私の祖父 ⇨ My grandfather
- お父さんにお前のしたこと言い付けてやる ⇨ I will tell dad what you have done
- 彼の父親は認知症に掛かった ⇨ His father is suffering from dementia
- 祖父が危篤になって家族が病院に駆け付けた ⇨ The grandfather is dying and the family rushed to the hospital
- 困った時はいつもお父さんに相談する ⇨ When I don’t know what to do, I always ask my dad for advice
- 彼は奇しくも彼の父親と同じ日に死んだ ⇨ By a strange coincidence he died on the same day his father had died
- ねえ、お父さん、これ買って！ ⇨ Hey dad, will you buy this for me?
- 祖父が戦争当時のことを回顧した ⇨ My grandfather remembered (and talked about) the times during the war