Meaning of gozaimasu?

Gozaimasu comes from an old verb gozaru, which is really a humble form of aru. It's not only used in ohayo gozaimasu or arigatou gozaimasu.

For example, if you go to a restaurant and ask if they have tempura, the waiter/waitress may say "hai, gozaimasu", which means, "yes, we (humbly) have".

[noun] "de gozaimasu" is really "de aru", or more often abbreviated to "desu", meaning "it is [noun]

It is used for yourself or people in your own group. For example: "Tanaka de gozaimasu" (I'm Tanaka), or "ni kai de gozaimasu" (this is the second floor, spoken by someone working in a department store, as they consider the department store their family).

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Meaning of gozaimasu?

What does gozaimasu mean? As far as I can tell, it is a kind of suffix with a positive meaning. I have heard it many times, yet I don't know what it means. Am I close?

Gozaimasu that you heard a lot might be those in aisatsu (greeting): Ohayo gozaimasu (good morning) and Arigato gozaimasu (thank you).

"gozaimasu" is actually the honorific for "arimasu" (the meaning is depends on the content, literally means be/there is it/have/be, etc). Gozaimashita is the past form of it.

Gozaimasu will replace arimasu in "sonkee" or "respectful" Japanese (very polite) conversation.

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Subject: adjective and gozaimasu

From: TAKASUGI Shinji (tssf.airnet.ne.jp)

Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 06:37:57 GMT

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When you use an adjective with the polite auxiliary verb gozaimasu, you have to change the ending of the adjective. The polite prefix o is often added too. This way of making an adjective polite came from Kansai (Western Japan) dialects, which have more contracted pronunciation than Tokyo dialect, so it's more complicated in a viewpoint of pronunciation and grammar.

In Standard Japanese, you have to change the suffix -i to -ku when you add the auxiliary adjective nai, such as takai to takaku nai. The Kansai people say takô nai instead of takaku nai, and ôkyû nai instead of ôkiku nai. The adjective gozaimasu has the same rule.

Original /k/ lost Final

-aku -au -ô

-iku -iu -yû

-uku -uu -û

-oku -ou -ô

Example:

takai → takô gozaimasu

ôkii → ôkyû gozaimasu

atsui → atsû gozaimasu

osoi → osô gozaimasu

The adjective hayai (early) becomes hayô gozaimasu, and adding the prefix o gives ohayô gozaimasu. Also the adjective medetai (happy event) gives omedetô gozaimasu, and the compound adjective arigatai (the verb aru = exist, the adjective katai = rare, i.e. rarely exist) gives arigatô gozaimasu.

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Nasai means "please do." Oyasumi means "to rest/sleep," so oyasumi nasai is literally "have a sleep." In Gomen nasai, Gomen means "to forgive," so literally it is "forgive me." Gozaimasu is a very polite form of "there is" or "it is/you are/I am." In Ohayo gozaimasu, ohayo means "early," so the phrase means "you are early" which later became the morning greeting word. In Arigato gozaimasu, Arigato means "rare/precious" and the phrase arigato gozaimasu literally means "it is rare/precious" which later became a thanking word for what others did for you.

"Ohayo gozaimasu!" means "Good morning!" in Japanese. "Arigato gozaimasu" means "Thank you very much". It depends on the amount of respect you wish to show to the other person. You can say just "Ohayo!" meaning "Morning!", and "Arigato", meaning "Thanks". It's a bit more formal.

Viet_foreva: It's "Konnichiwa!"

More or less.

It means "very much".

In Japanese, verbs are conjugated by politeness levels, rather than whose speaking. -Masu is considered a normal level of politeness.

Gozaru comes from the word "aru", which means to be. It's a more humble version.

It's often heard after "Domo arigatou", which means thank you.

So

Domo arigatou gozaimasu

means

thank you VERY much

Ohayoo gozaimasu

means

it's VERY early . . . but they use it to mean good morning.

Politeness = GOOD

^_^

I guess.

To show politeness, respect especially to teacher, customer, or manager.