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- Honorific prefixes: 「ご」 vs 「お」 - Japanese Language Stack . . .
ご両親りょうしん ご家族かぞく ご無事ぶじ ご安心あんしん ご丁寧ていねい While many others take the 「お」 prefix: お母さん お仕事しごと お月つきさま お家うち お客きゃく In general, what are the criteria that determine whether a noun takes a 「ご」 or an 「お」?
- Explanation of ambiguous gokigenyou - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
ごきげんよう gokigen'yō ご (honorific prefix) きげん ("mood; tide") よう (old-fashioned form for よく, a conjugation † of よい) Altogether means "your mood (being) well", or practically "in good mood; in good shape" Why is it both a greeting and a farewell?
- ~あらんことを: Slight Variations and Idiomatic Degree
" 神のご加護があることを願っています " is a perfectly grammatical sentence which only uses the simplest contemporary grammar So it sounds businesslike and matter-of-fact as compared with " ご加護があらんことを ", which has a religious atmosphere EDIT: Note that 「～ があらんことを」 is a grandiose phrase
- When is it appropriate to use お疲れ様 (otsukaresama)?
I know the general meaning of using お疲れ様です／でした to express gratitude for some work, but I'm a bit fuzzy about appropriate times to use it I know it is a common saying when leaving for the day, and
- Usage of すみません (sumimasen) versus ごめんなさい (gomennasai)
すみません and ごめんなさい can be used interchangeably in some cases but there are some differences すみません: It's a bit more formal than ごめんなさい; In general, it's the one you use when you apologize to a senior or superior people (in this last situation, using " ごめんなさい " might sound childish - see the following point); It's used more by older people
- Polite Way to Ask How old are you? : 何歳 , いくつ ,年齢 , ご年
I think the sentences: 何歳ですか？ いくつですか？ 年齢は？ お年は？ are all sentences that ask quot;How old are you? quot; How are they different? What form is most polite?
- word choice - What is the difference in meaning between husband and . . .
I see that those two compounds mean husband and wife, as a married couple But is there a difference in usage or context?
- word choice - 「助言」と「示唆」はどう違いますか。 - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
最近、「示唆」という言葉を学びました。意味的にsuggestionという意味だそうですが、「助言」と同じ意味ではないでしょうか。それぞれのニュアンス何ですか。その違いが分かるように色々な例文を探してみました:助言を受ける人。彼の助言は非常に役立つ。牧師としての助言。この結果は
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