ジョヴァンニ
jovanni
The Japanese way to say the Italian male given name Giovanni is ジョヴァンニ (jovanni).
ジョヴァンニ is used to transcribe the Italian male name Giovanni into Japanese script.
How do you pronounce it?
jovanni
Did you know?
- The character ヴ used in ジョヴァンニ is a special addition to the Japanese script. It was specifically developed to represent the 'v' sound in foreign loanwords, a sound that is fundamentally absent from native Japanese phonology.
- If a Japanese person were to write this name using Kanji to give it 'meaning', they would have to use 'ateji', which is assigning characters for their sounds rather than their actual dictionary meaning.
- In a professional or polite setting in Japan, one would refer to the person as ジョヴァンニ-san. This honorific is applied even if the person is clearly a foreigner and is not Japanese themselves.
Examples in context
- ジョヴァンニという人が来ました。Jovanni to iu hito ga kimashita.A person named Giovanni came.
Example conversation
Two friends are discussing a character from a book.
- 美咲 Misakiその本の主人公はジョヴァンニですか？Sono hon no shujinkou wa Jovanni desu ka?Is the protagonist of that book Giovanni?
- 健太 Kentaはい、ジョヴァンニです。Hai, Jovanni desu.Yes, it is Giovanni.
- 美咲 Misaki健太さんは、彼の名前が好きですか？Kenta-san wa, kare no namae ga suki desu ka?Kenta, do you like his name?
- 健太 Kentaはい、とてもかっこいい名前ですね。Hai, totemo kakkoii namae desu ne.Yes, it is a very cool name.
