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旧正月 and 旧お正月. Which is correct?
which is correct?
旧正月 is what I have learned from my textbook but I have been corrected by my Japanese peers quite a few times that it is 旧お正月. o.O
And when I used 旧お正月 once during my Japanese class, my sensei corrected me. @.@
Okay, I trust my sensei but may I know if 旧お正月 is becoming more acceptable nowadays especially among younger people or does using 旧お正月 shows your lack of proficiency in the language?
1 Answer
- SayonaraLv 79 years agoFavourite answer
Your teacher is right.
Kyuushougatsu is the date for the new year according to the lunar calendar.
Shougatsu is 01/01, simple, straighforward, the name for a date on the calendar.
o-shougatsu is the name of the festivity at the occasion of "shougatsu"
kyuu-o-shougatsu is inappropriate as there is no reason why the honorific should be inserted into an technical term, thus mixing "registers".