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本人  [(1)ほんにん]    meaning:  self  rank: 1
☆ 彼本人はどう思っているの? ⇨ What does he himself think of it?
☆ 本人にいてよ ⇨ Why don’t you ask him/her direct?
☆ 証明書は本人が申請しなくてはいけない ⇨ The applicant must apply for the license personally


More examples:
  • 日本人は島国根性だとよく批判される ⇨ Japanese are often criticized to have insular mentalities
  • 日本人は不揃いのままの人がい ⇨ Many Japanese have unaligned teeth (uncorrected)
  • 本人の承諾ずに情報公開する ⇨ Publicize information without acceptance, agreement, of the individual
  • 日本人のチアリーダーダサダサていられない ⇨ Japanese cheerleaders are so lame they are hard to watch
  • 最近の日本人はしい日本語せないといている ⇨ He deplores that today’s Japanese can’t speak proper Japanese
  • 日本人は米国人ほど頻繁裁判をしない ⇨ Japanese don’t have trials as often as Americans
  • 日本人のくはらない人に自分から積極的しかけない ⇨ Most Japanese won’t take the initiative and talk to strangers
  • 現代の日本人は洋服しかきない ⇨ Modern Japanese hardly wear anything but western-style clothes
  • 日本人一人当たりのビール消費量 ⇨ The amount of beer consumed per capita in Japan
  • 本人がやるにならないと、やるさないと、どうしようもない ⇨ There is nothing you can do unless he himself wants to do it
  • 日本人には西欧料理大味じられるい ⇨ Western cuisines often feel lacking delicacy for Japanese
  • 日本人は白人ではないしさで結局欧米では差別ける ⇨ Japanese still receive discrimination in US and Europe because of the disadvantage of not being whites
  • 日本人には戦争風化した ⇨ The memory of war has been eroded for Japanese
  • はそれは又聞きしただけで、本人からいたわけじゃない ⇨ I heard it from a third person, not from the first person
  • 海外居住している日本人 ⇨ Japanese living abroad