Honorific prefixes: 「ご」 vs 「お」 - Japanese Language Stack . . . 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」?
Explanation of ambiguous gokigenyou - Japanese Language Stack Exchange ごきげんよう gokigen'yō ご (honorific prefix) きげん ("mood; tide") よう (old-fashioned form for よく, a conjugation † of よい) Altogether means "your mood (being) well", or practically "in good mood; in good shape" Why is it both a greeting and a farewell?
usage - When is it appropriate to use ごくろうさま? - Japanese Language Stack . . . I've seen お疲れさま and ご苦労くろうさま used to say "Thank you" after some had done work of some type After reading the お疲れさま thread, I realize that the two are not interchangeable So when do you use ご苦労くろうさま? When is it appropriate to use otsukaresama?
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 does - Japanese Language Stack Exchange Now a problem arises when the word before して is a loanword because attaching the prefix ご to a loanword is usually unacceptable チェックしていただければ would become ごチェックいただければ, but this form sounds wrong Therefore one compromise may be to drop ご and say チェックいただければ
ありがとうございます - Japanese Language Stack Exchange There is one case where ありがとうございました is much more usual than ありがとうございます: when you close a talk by saying “Thank you for your attention,” the common (and I think formal) phrase is ご清聴ありがとうございました, not ご清聴ありがとうございます, although the action for which the
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