ご主しゅ人じん

Common wordJLPTN5

Meanings

noun

your husband; her husband

honorific or respectful (sonkeigo)

Honorific term used to refer respectfully to someone else's husband. Not used for one's own husband.

Usage patterns

ご主しゅ人じんによろしくお伝つたえくださいplease give my regards to your husband
ご主しゅ人じんによろしくお伝つたえください。
Please give my regards to your husband.
ご主しゅ人じんはお元げん気きですかto ask after someone's husband's health
ご主しゅ人じんはお元げん気きですか。
How is your husband doing?

Expressions

ご主しゅ人じん様さまmaster; lord · Your Lordship; My Lord · husband

Kanji

主lord, chief, master
人person
御honorable, manipulate, govern

Related words

旦だん那なN1
旦那 is a casual, familiar word for a husband (one's own or another's), while ご主人 is the polite, standard term used for someone else's husband.
夫おっとN5
夫 is the neutral, formal word for 'husband' with no honorific meaning, unlike ご主人 which specifically honors someone else's husband.

Opposites

奥おくさんN5
奥さん is the parallel honorific term used to refer respectfully to someone else's wife, while ご主人 refers to someone else's husband.

Politeness

主しゅ人じんplainN4
主人 is the plain or humble term a person uses for their own husband, while ご主人 is the honorific form used to refer to someone else's husband.

Written forms

ご主しゅ人じん
Standard respectful spelling with honorific prefix ご.
御ご主しゅ人じん
Formal or literary spelling using the kanji 御 for the honorific prefix; less common in everyday writing.

Etymology

Honorific prefix ご + 主人 (master, husband). The base word 主人 originally meant 'master' or 'head of household' and came to mean 'husband' in modern usage.