Honorifics

待っておいでになります

お待ち申し上げております

待たせていただくことにしましょうか

待っていただくわけにはいきませんか

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• (On the phone):
• Yamanaka, is that Mr. Kimura? I'm Yamanaka from AB Publishing. I'd like to pick up the original manuscript. Is that okay?
• Kimura I'm sorry, it's not ready yet. Can you please wait three more days?
• This question examines honorifics and granting relationships. According to the meaning of the sentence, it is Kimura who asked Yamanaka to wait for three days, while お待ち申し上げております is a humble honorific expressing one's own action, 待たせていただく is to say please allow me to wait, and 待っていただく is to say that you ask the other person to wait.

お聞きいただけませんか

お聞かせ願えますか

お話になるでしょうか

お話し申し上げましょうか

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• (Interview in progress)
• Reporter "Coach Tanaka, congratulations on the championship. Can you tell us how you feel right now?"
• Coach "Okay. I'm really, really happy to win the championship."
• お + Type I/II verb ます形 +願う
• Leave + Class III verb stem + +願う：表示请求别人做某事
• お聞かせ願えますか：Can you please let us hear it? Can you please say something?
• お～いただく：Expressing self-effacement, referring to humbly accepting a favor from an elder or superior or requesting the other party to do something
• お話になる："Talkす "的respectful language
• お話申し上げます："話す "的自谦语

ねがいたい

なさりたい

くださりたい

になりたい

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• Guest, the hotel you wish to stay at is full. Could you please change to another hotel?
• ねがいたい："ご+願う "Politely ask the other person to do something.
• "「お+願う」please ......
• Kudasaritai: I hope you do ......
• になりたい：Want to become ......

上がり

差しあげ

願い

見え

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• (on phone)
• A would like to deliver your reservation. Is tomorrow convenient?
• Will be home if after B:00.
• Kamigaru: In this case, it's a self-effacing expression for "Gyoku/Visiting Neru".
• Differentialげる："与える・やる "等的自謙语
• The other options are not self-effacing statements and do not fit the context.