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本物 or 偽者？
本物 honmono (the real thing) and 偽物 nisemono (a fake) are opposites. But there is a third word: 偽者 nisemono – an imposter. Click here for More…
I’m sure you noticed the
者 instead of the
物. And you probably know that both are pronounced mono here but 者 is used with people and 物 is used with things.
Well, while working on an update for our main iPhone app (an absolutely shameless plug!), I came across this sentence:
私には本物の若殿様がわかります。
watashi ni wa honmono no wakatono sama ga wakarimasu.
I know which is the real young lord.
The scene is about a smart youngster named Hikoichi being tested by the lord. He must figure out which of five children is the real thing, er… I mean the real person. So I asked Yumi why it shouldn’t be 本者 (even though I had never seen it written as such). She gave me one of those "why-are-you-so-stupid-and-why-did-I-marry-you" looks until I explained there was a 偽者 so why not a 本者?! I guess because it is used as an adjective (notice the の), 物 is just fine?
Anyway, just doing a quick search, it seems the internet is flooded by Japanese mixing up the 偽者 with 偽物.
For Example:
ティファニーの本物と偽者の見分け方 (found on Google)
So are they having trouble deciding if a girl is a real girl (as opposed to an android) or if an item the girl bought from a Chinese retailer on Ebay is a fake? Or is an item bought from Tiffany’s?
I guess it is just as well there isn’t a 本者. And regarding the two nisemono’s… if you want to play safe, just write it in katakana: ニセモノ
(Edit: Found this post by a native Japanese speaker who took a whole two minutes to figure out what 本者 was. Seems I wasn’t the only one asking the question!)
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