ホンネ – Vocabulary details

ホンネ

Meanings

Noun

1. real intention; motive; true opinion; what one really thinks

あの子こに見みられていては本ほん音ねも口くちにしづらいだろう。It would be hard to speak one's true feelings if that child were watching.

Alt. forms

本ほん音ね

99%

ホンネ

Pitch accent

ホ

ンネ

Used in: 25

Composed of

ホン

book; volume; this; present; main; head; real

ネ

sound; tone; note; ring; chirp

Used in vocabulary (2 in total)

ホンネとタテマエ

one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason

ホンネトタテマエ

one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason

Examples (11 in total)

ついついほんねホンネで言いい返かえしていた。

I couldn't help but talk back with my true feelings.

謙けん遜そんではなくほんねホンネだ。

This is not modesty, but my true feelings.

人ひとはほんねホンネを隠かくすものだ。

People hide their true feelings.

明あきらかに、ほんねホンネを隠かくしながらの会かい話わだ。

It is clearly a conversation where one hides their true feelings.

だからこそ、いま、ほんねホンネをぶちまけているんだ。

That is exactly why I am venting my true feelings right now.

トムにはなぜかほんねホンネを語かたれるんだ。

For some reason I can be honest with Tom.

社しゃ長ちょうは言いうこととほんねホンネが違ちがう。

My boss says one thing and means another.

心しん配ぱいしてると見みせかけてほんねホンネ言いうのやめなさい！

Stop pretending to be worried when you're really just speaking your mind!

見みとれて僕ぼくはついほんねホンネを漏もらす。

Captivated, I inadvertently let slip my true feelings.

辞やめてほしくないというのがほんねホンネではあるんですけどね。

The truth is that I don't want you to quit, though.

あの子こに見みられていてはほんねホンネも口くちにしづらいだろう。