Honorifics

おりました

まいりました

さった

いただいた

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• Nakamura: Chief, the chocolates you gave me yesterday were very good, thank you.
• Section Chief: Ah! That's good.
• いただいた→いただく：''rao's self-effacing expression for getting.
• おりました → おる: a polite way of saying いる.
• まいりました → まいる: a self-effacing phrase for traveling or coming.
• なさった→なさる：する的尊敬語。

食べられます

差し上げます

なさいます

ございます

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• (in the cafeteria)
• Guest: I'd like a lunch set, please.
• Clerk, package A or package B, which one do you want?
• Guest: Package A, please.
• なさいます: the honorific of する.
• どちらになさいますか：Commonly used expression in the service industry to show respect and sensitivity to guests. It means which one do you want?
• 差し上げます：あげる的自谦语。 It means to present, to honor, to give to you.
• ございます: A polite expression for ある.

いたします

さいます

うかがいます

いらっしゃいます

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• (in the cafeteria)
• Clerk: Welcome. Are there two of you?
• Guest: Yes.
• Clerk: Please go this way. I'll take you there.
• ~に案内する : To lead to somewhere.
• Itasu: A self-effacing word for する.
• Nasaru: The honorific for する. A shopkeeper needs to use self-effacing language when describing his or her behavior.
• うかがいます: うかがう is a self-effacing word for "聞く・尋ねる".
• いらっしゃいます: A term of respect for いる, 行く, and 来る.

くださいます

いただきます

差し上げます

召し上がります

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• The president always comes back from business trips with gifts for us part-time employees.
• Kudasamasu: Kudasaru is the honorific with える-くれる, meaning to send, to give (to me).
• Used when the other person is a person of higher status than oneself or an elder, the subject is the other person.
• いただきます：Self-humble word for もらう. It means to worship and lead, to be blessed by ...... given, the subject is oneself.
• 差し上げます：与える-やる的自谦语。 Meaning to give away, gifted to the subject as oneself.
• 召し上がります：Respectively of 食う-飲む. Means to dine, to take a meal, to drink.

うかがいましたか

もうしあげましたか

おっしゃいましたか

お聞きになりましたか

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• Teacher HOA Did your parents say anything when you said you wanted to study abroad?
• HOA they said to cheer me on and support me.
• Oっしゃる: A honorific expression for "言う"("言う").
• うかがう: Self-effacing expressions for "聞く" and "尋ねる".
• もうし上げる (もうしあげる): a self-effacing expression of "言う" (言う).
• お聞きになる："聞く"'s honorific expression