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婚約者 (こんやくしゃ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

婚こん約やく者しゃ

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Meanings

1

fiancé; fiancée

Refers to the person one is engaged to marry. Gender-neutral in Japanese; context or additional words clarify gender when needed.

彼かれは私わたしの婚こん約やく者しゃです。
He is my fiancé.

婚こん約やく者しゃと一いっ緒しょに結けっ婚こん式しきの準じゅん備びをしています。

I am preparing for the wedding with my fiancé(e).

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が婚こん約やく者しゃになるfor someone to become one's fiancé(e)
彼かれは去きょ年ねん、私わたしの婚こん約やく者しゃになった。
He became my fiancé last year.
婚こん約やく者しゃを紹しょう介かいするto introduce one's fiancé(e)
両りょう親しんに婚こん約やく者しゃを紹しょう介かいした。
I introduced my fiancée to my parents.
〈人ひと〉の婚こん約やく者しゃができるfor someone to get a fiancé(e)
友とも達だちに婚こん約やく者しゃができたそうだ。
I heard my friend got a fiancé.

Kanji

婚marriage
約promise, approximately, shrink
者someone, person

Related words

フィアンセ
フィアンセ is a fashionable katakana loanword for a fiancé(e), while 婚約者 is the neutral, formal Japanese term used in legal or serious contexts.
許嫁いいなずけ
許嫁 carries an old-fashioned or traditional nuance, often implying an arrangement made early in life, whereas 婚約者 is the plain modern term for a fiancé(e).
恋こい人びとN3
恋人 refers to any romantic partner without a formal promise to marry, while 婚約者 specifically means someone one has agreed to marry.
名な付づけ
名付け (sense 2) is a rare, literary abbreviation for 'fiancé(e),' while 婚約者 is the standard word used in everyday modern speech.
結けっ婚こん相あい手てN2
婚約者 specifically means a fiancé(e) who is formally engaged, whereas 結婚相手 can refer more broadly to anyone one intends to marry, engaged or not.

Don't confuse with

婚こん約やくN3
婚約 means the act or state of 'being engaged', while 婚約者 means the actual person one is engaged to.

Built from

婚こん約やく+者しゃ

Etymology

Compound of 婚約 (engagement) + 者 (person). The exact historical derivation is straightforward; the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning.