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- Honorific prefixes: 「ご」 vs 「お」 - Japanese Language Stack . . .
Some nouns take the 「ご」 prefix: 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」?
- When to read その後 as そのご, そのあと or そののち?
9 This is my personal impression, but I think that その後 read as そのあと or そののち means “shortly after that” or “then,” whereas その後 read as そのご means a longer period than that, corresponding more to “ever since then ” そののち sounds more formal than そのあと to me
- What are appropriate situations where you use
As something of a fossilized and archaic term, 何卒なにとぞ comes across as more formal and stiff This would not be used in everyday talk Possible use cases in the closing of formal correspondence might be: ご質問しつもん等とうがございましたら 何卒 ご連絡れんらくください。 何卒 宜よろしくお願ねがい致いたします。 何卒 どうぞ宜
- 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
- When would I use - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
You might want to recheck your textbook or other source from which you got these - your first example should probably be さんじごじっぷん or さんじごじゅっぷん (not じゅうぷん) Anyway, the answer to your question involves a phenomenon called rendaku (連濁), sometimes translated as "sequential voicing" This answer has a good overview of the phenomenon
- What are the differences between なさる and される?
@kalemeister The "適切な形ではない" 注 half of what you pasted there is referring to ご〜される being unaccepted, not 〜(ら)れる or 〜される in general
- What is the female equivalent for 「ご主人様」 or master?
The female equivalent of 主人 is 女主人おんなしゅじん, and you would address your 女主人 as 奥様おくさま or お嬢様じょうさま (You wouldn't address her as 女主人様おんなしゅじんさま )
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