みんな (minna) Japanese meaning: everyone

みんな (minna) Japanese meaning: everyone | Kotomora

Kanji

皆all, everything

Related words· 13

全ぜん員いんN3sense 1
全員 formally means 'all members present' and suits official contexts, while みんな is casual and can include the speaker naturally in everyday talk.
全ぜん部ぶN5sense 2
全部 is used mainly for objects or amounts ('all of it'), whereas みんな can refer to either people or things but leans toward people.
全すべてN3sense 2
すべて is a more literary, formal way to say 'everything/all', while みんな is the everyday spoken word.
老ろう若にゃく男なん女にょN1
老若男女 is a formal yojijukugo meaning 'people of every age and gender', while 皆 is the plain, everyday word for 'everyone'.

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万ばん人にんN1
皆 is a casual, everyday word for 'everyone', while 万人 is formal and literary, often appearing in set phrases.
皆みなさんN5
皆さん is the polite way to address or refer to a group of people, while 皆 is the plain form used casually among friends or in writing.
誰だれも
みんな is a casual, everyday word for 'everyone,' while 誰も is more pronoun-like and is essential in the negative pattern 誰も〜ない meaning 'no one.'
君きみたち
みんな is a casual, gender-neutral way to address a group that doesn't carry the male-leaning tone of 君たち.

Politeness

皆みなさんpolite 丁寧語N5sense 1
皆さん is the polite form used to directly address a group ('everyone, listen'), while みんな is the plain, casual pronoun used in general reference.
皆みな様さまhonorific 尊敬語N1sense 1
皆様 is a very formal, honorific way to address a group, while みんな is the plain, casual equivalent used among friends or family.

Word family· 7

皆みなさんN5
everyone; all of you; ladies and gentlemen
皆みな様さまN1
everyone; all of you
皆みな殺ごろし
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
皆みな々みな
all; everyone; everybody · everything

Written forms

みんなUsage41%
Common kana spelling; less formal and more emphatic than みな. Usually written in kana.
皆Usage40%
- みな
  Kanji spelling, more formal and often read as みな. Can also be read みんな in casual contexts.

Etymology

Derived from 皆 (みな), with the emphatic geminate form みんな developing in colloquial speech. The kanji 皆 is a phono-semantic compound, but the exact historical derivation of the reading is uncertain.

みんな

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