Revising Honorific Language in Japanese – Part 3

Revising honorific language in Japanese – Part 3

🍑 REVISING HONORIFIC LANGUAGE (III) 🍑

We carry on with HONORIFIC LANGUAGE, this time the HUMBLE patterns.

In fact only pattern (1) here is new – and MoMo introduced that one the other day too. The patterns after it all build on and extend patterns you have already learnt.

Let's take a look.

❤️ 1) Structure:

お＋group 1 or 2 V (drop ます)＋します (a group 2 verb must have 2 syllables or more once ます is dropped)
ご＋group 3 V (drop ます) ＋します

☀️ 今月のスケジュールをお送りします
☀️ 明日、また連絡致します

❤️ 2) Some special patterns

♦️ 1.1 Offering to do something for someone：
(お/ご)＋Ｖ (drop ます)＋しましょうか

☘️ タクシーお呼びしましょうか。Shall I call you a taxi?

☘️ 忙しそうですね。お手伝いしましょうか。You look rushed off your feet. Shall I lend a hand?

☘️ 重そうですね。一つをお持ちしましょうか。That looks heavy. Shall I carry one for you?

♦️ 1.2 Asking permission to do something：
V (causative form) + せて頂きます

🌳 新しいメンバーをご紹介させて頂きます.
May I introduce the new members

🌳 今週の金曜日、休ませて頂けませんか？
May I take this Friday off?

And that is the end of HUMBLE LANGUAGE. Not as hard going as I had feared, is it.

Writing it is not hard, in truth, but in the listening section we get in a muddle over who is asking whom to do what. So to do well in listening you must listen a great deal + practise speaking a great deal

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We hope this is useful to you as a learner of Japanese.
Thanks to the Tiếng nhật online MoMo fanpage for sharing.
Good luck with your studies and your exam.