マルセル
maruseru
The English name Marcel is written in Japanese as マルセル (maruseru).
マルセル is the Katakana transcription of the male given name Marcel.
Meaning: male given name (name)
Which one should you use?
The base name is マルセル. When addressing the person, you will often see it paired with different honorific suffixes to indicate your relationship to them.
How do you pronounce it?
maruseru
Did you know?
- Because マルセル contains the sound マル (maru), it sounds identical to the Japanese word for 'circle', which is often used in Japan to mark a correct answer on a test.
- If a Japanese person wanted to give the name マルセル a native meaning, they might assign it Kanji characters like 丸 meaning 'round' and 切 meaning 'cut'.
- If you were to call someone named マルセル by only their name without an honorific in a social setting, it would imply an extremely close, often intimate, relationship. This is true even for non-Japanese names.
Examples in context
- マルセル君があくせく働いても年収30万カナダドールです。Even though Marcel works hard, he only earns 30 000 Canadian dollars per year.This sentence is useful for seeing the name マルセル used in a sentence about someone's annual income.Tatoeba #928506 by Scott, translation #928510 by Scott
- マルセルさんは親切な人です。Maruseru-san wa shinsetsu na hito desu.Mr. Marcel is a kind person.
- あそこにいるのはマルセルさんですか？Asoko ni iru no wa Maruseru-san desu ka?Is that person over there Marcel?
Example conversation
Yui and Yota are talking about a new colleague at work.
- 結衣 Yui新しい同僚はマルセルさんです。Atarashii douryou wa Maruseru-san desu.The new colleague is Marcel.
- 陽太 Yotaマルセルさんはどんな人ですか？Maruseru-san wa donna hito desu ka?What kind of person is Marcel?
- 結衣 Yuiとても明るい人ですよ。Totemo akarui hito desu yo.He is a very cheerful person.
- 陽太 Yotaそれは良かったです。Sore wa yokatta desu.That is good to hear.
Sources
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
