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honorific speech — the verb itself raises the person whose action it is

社長しゃちょうさきほどおかえりになりました。

shachou wa sakihodo o kaeri ni narimashita.

The president went home a short while ago. formal

先生せんせい、コーヒーはがりますか。

sensei, koohii wa meshiagarimasu ka.

Will you have some coffee, professor? formal

Variants

  • れる/られるreru/rarerualternant

    the light honorific, spelled exactly like the passive — 社長しゃちょうはなされた; standard in business speech and in newspapers, where お〜になる would weigh the sentence down.

尊敬語

そんけいごsonkeigoN4formal

Formation

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