Phobias || 恐怖症・きょうふしょう
Trigger Warning: The following information features mention of and information regarding various phobias. If this kind of thing makes you feel uneasy then please disregard the following post.
Hey guys, today I’m going to do a small post on different kinds of phobias just in case you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to tell or warn others! I tried to do what I thought were the most common phobias but if you have something that isn’t on the list and would like to know its Japanese translation then please send me a message and I’d be happy to help you out and add to this list!
Vocabulary・単語・たんご：
- Acrophobia・高所恐怖症・こうしょきょうふしょう
Fear of heights.- Claustrophobia・閉所恐怖症・へいじょきょうふしょう
Fear of confined spaces.- Aerophobia・飛行機恐怖症・ひこうききょうふしょう
Fear of flying.- Nyctophobia・案所恐怖症・あんしょきょうふしょう
Fear of the dark.- Anthropophobia・対人恐怖症・たいじんきょうふしょう
Fear of people.- Trypophobia・集合体恐怖症・しゅうごうたいきょうふしょう
Fear of repetitive patterns/clusters of small holes.- Belonephobia・先端恐怖症・せんたんきょうふしょう
Fear of needles.- Necrophobia・死「死体」恐怖症・し「したい」きょうふしょう
Fear of death/corpses.- Arachnophobia・蜘蛛恐怖症・くもきょうふしょう
Fear of spiders.- Airplane・飛行機・ひこうき
- Death・死・し
- Enclosed spaces・狭いところ・せまいところ
- High places・高いところ・たかいところ
- Needles・針・はり
- Phobia・恐怖症・きょうふしょう
- Phobia・フォビア
- Spiders・クモ／蜘蛛・くも
Examples・例「れい」：
To keep it simple you can say “(phobia)＋です” in Japanese which translates to “I have (phobia)”. You can also use the sentence pattern “～が怖いです・～がこわいです” which translates to “I’m afraid of~”.高所恐怖症です。
I have acrophobia.高いところが怖いです。
I’m afraid of heights.高いところが苦手です。
I don’t do well with heights.
べんきょうしなければならない 