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神様
かみさま
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god
Kamisama is 神 (kami, “deity, god”) plus 様 (-sama, honorific suffix).
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In a sentence
私達は神様を信じます。
We believe in God.
あなたは神様を信じますか。
Do you believe in God?
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 神(かみ) (kami, “deity, god”) + 様(さま) (-sama, honorific suffix).”
Source: Wiktionary: 神様 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.