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子息

しそく

son (honorific, of another person)

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Examples

  1. ご子息はおいくつですか。

    ごしそくはおいくつですか。

    How old is your son?

  2. ご子息のご結婚を心よりお祝い申し上げます。

    ごしそくのごけっこんをこころよりおいわいもうしあげます。

    Please accept our heartiest congratulations on the marriage of your son.

  3. 社長のご子息が今年入社されたそうだ。

    しゃちょうのごしそくがことしにゅうしゃされたそうだ。

    I hear the president's son joined the company this year.

Common patterns

ご子息
your son (honorific)
ご子息が跡を継ぐ
the son takes over (the business)
社長のご子息
the president's son

Memory tip

Honorific and used only of someone else's son — never your own, which is 息子. It practically always appears as ご子息; the female counterpart is ご令嬢 (or お嬢様).

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