本音 – Vocabulary details

本ほん音ね

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.

Kanji used

本

book

音

sound

Pitch accent

ほ

んね

Used in: 3092

Composed of

本ほん

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

音ね

sound; tone; note; ring; chirp

Used in vocabulary (4 in total)

本ほん音ねを言いう

to speak one's mind; to be frank; to tell the truth

本ほん音ねと建たて前まえ

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

本ほん音ねをいう

to speak one's mind; to be frank; to tell the truth

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Examples (11 in total)

ついつい本ほん音ね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本ほん音ねだ。

This is not modesty, but my true feelings.

人ひとは本ほん音ねを隠かくすものだ。

People hide their true feelings.

明あきらかに、本ほん音ね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、本ほん音ねをぶちまけているんだ。

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

トムにはなぜか本ほん音ねを語かたれるんだ。

For some reason I can be honest with Tom.

社しゃ長ちょうは言いうことと本ほん音ねが違ちがう。

My boss says one thing and means another.

心しん配ぱいしてると見みせかけて本ほん音ね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本ほん音ねを漏もらす。

Captivated, I inadvertently let slip my true feelings.

辞やめてほしくないというのが本ほん音ね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本ほん音ねも口くちにしづらいだろう。