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ポケットマネー (pokettomanee) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ポケットマネー

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Meanings

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pocket money; personal spending money; money paid out of one's own pocket

A noun for money someone has personally available or pays privately, often in the pattern ポケットマネーで, 'with one's own money.'

彼かれはポケットマネーでチームに新あたらしいユニフォームを買かった。

He bought the team new uniforms with his own money.

旅りょ行こう中ちゅうの飲のみ物もの代だいは各かく自じのポケットマネーで払はらってください。

Please pay for your own drinks during the trip with your personal spending money.

Usage patterns

〈物もの〉をポケットマネーで買かうto buy something with one's own personal money
社長しゃちょうはすたっはスタッフの飲ふのみ物ものをポケットマネーで買かった。
The president bought drinks for the staff with his own pocket money.
ポケットマネーを出だすto pay for something out of one's own pocket
彼かれは修しゅう理り費ひにポケットマネーを出だした。
He paid the repair costs out of his own pocket.

Related words

小こ遣づかいN3
小遣い is the everyday Japanese word for an allowance or regular spending money, while ポケットマネー stresses that money is paid privately out of one's own funds, often in a business or formal context.
自じ腹ばら
自腹 is a casual expression emphasizing that a person personally bears a cost (often in 自腹を切る), while ポケットマネー is a neutral noun for the personal money itself.
私し費ひN1
私費 is a formal term for private funds used instead of public money, whereas ポケットマネー is a more casual, borrowed word for one's own spending money.

Opposites

公こう費ひ
公費 refers to money from public or official funds, the opposite of ポケットマネー, which is money paid from one's own personal funds.

Built from

ポケット+マネー

Written forms

ポケットマネー
Standard katakana spelling; this form is high priority.
ポケット・マネー
- ぽけっとまねー
  Interpunct spelling also appears, especially when the two English-derived elements are visually separated.
- ポケット・マネー

Etymology

A katakana expression corresponding to English “pocket money”; no detailed loanword origin information is specified.