► 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:
- 女の子がお父さんの肩に乗っかっている ⇨ A little girl is sitting on her dad’s shoulders
- 祖父は下の世話が必要だ ⇨ My grandfather needs toileting help
- 彼は父親の死後喪に服している ⇨ He is in the mourning period after his father’s passing
- お前の親父さん ⇨ Your dad, old man
- 御父さんは元気？ ⇨ Is your father doing OK?
- 彼は戦争で父母を共に失った ⇨ He lost both parents in the war
- 子供が父親の手を引っ張っている ⇨ A child is tugging his father’s hand
- 彼は父親の七光りで選挙に当選した ⇨ He won the election because of his powerful father
- 彼には大金持ちの父親が後ろに付いている ⇨ He has his very rich father behind him (backing, supporting him)
- うちの父親は反面教師だった ⇨ My father was a “reverse teacher”. I learned what not to do, whom not to be like, by watching my father
- お父さんは疲れているから眠らせて上げなさい ⇨ Dad’s tired, so let him sleep
- 私の伯父 ⇨ My uncle
- 兄弟喧嘩して父親に叱られた ⇨ I had a fight with my brother and got scolded by my father
- 祖父は杖をついて歩く ⇨ My grandfather uses a cane to walk
- 彼は父親のことを嫌っている ⇨ He hates his father