カミングアウト

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English coming out.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) カミングア​ウト [kàmíńgú áꜜùtò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ka̠mʲĩŋɡɯ̟ᵝ a̠ɯ̟ᵝto̞]

Noun

カミングアウト • (kamingu auto) 

  1. (LGBT) coming out of the closet
    いきなりのカミングアウト
    ikinari no kamingu auto
    sudden coming out

Verb

カミングアウトする • (kamingu auto suru) suru (stem カミングアウトし (kamingu auto suru shi), past カミングアウトした (kamingu auto suru shita))

  1. (LGBT, intransitive) to come out of the closet
    ブログでカミングアウトする
    burogu de kamingu auto suru
    to come out on one's blog
  2. (LGBT, transitive) to announce, as when coming out of the closet
    ゲイであることをカミングアウトする
    gei de aru koto o kamingu auto suru
    to come out as being gay
    (literally, “to coming out that one is gay”)
  3. (transitive) to reveal something secret about oneself
    どもりをカミングアウトすることのメリットを知(し)って、身(み)近(ぢか)な人(ひと)にどもりがあると伝(つた)えていきましょう。
    Domori o kamingu auto suru koto no meritto o shitte, mijika na hito ni domori ga aru to tsutaete ikimashō.
    So we know there are many benefits of not hiding our stuttering. Let's bravely tell people around us that we have this problem.

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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