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**DoctorQuquriramba** · 06-06-2008, 10:10 AM

Thanks, guys! What do I call people - like, what do I call Mrs. Shin that'd be like "Shin-san?"

Formal/polite suffix is "ssi" (shi), but it's used differently and a lot more sparingly than the Japanese 'san'.
Informal ways of addressing the waitress (if she's older) is 'adjumma' roughly meaning 'old auntie', but I personally wouldn't use it.
Just use Mrs Shin, if that's the name she's told you.

06-06-2008, 10:10 AM	#27
DoctorQuquriramba Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	Thanks, guys! What do I call people - like, what do I call Mrs. Shin that'd be like "Shin-san?" Formal/polite suffix is "ssi" (shi), but it's used differently and a lot more sparingly than the Japanese 'san'. Informal ways of addressing the waitress (if she's older) is 'adjumma' roughly meaning 'old auntie', but I personally wouldn't use it. Just use Mrs Shin, if that's the name she's told you.
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