Question | Answer |
お名前は何ですか. | What is your name? (casual) |
お名前は? | What is your name? (more polite) |
お名前はなん と おっしゃいます か. | What are you called? (most polite) |
[last name, first name] と もうします. | I am called [last name, first name]. (most polite) |
[last name, first name] と よんで ください. | Please call me [last name]. (more polite) |
[last name, first name] と よんで ください. | Please call me [first name]. (casual) |
[first name] です. | I am [first name]. (most casual) |
お仕事は? | Your job is? (more polite) |
お仕事は何 を して いらっしゃいます か. | What is the job that you do? (most polite) |
ソニーに つとめて います。 | I am employed by Sony. (most polite) |
デザイナー を して います。 | I am a designer. (more casual) |
デザイナーの 仕事 を して います。 | I have a job as a designer. (more polite) |
ご しゅっしん は どちら です か。 | From where did you originate? (more polite) |
お 国はどちら です か。 | Which country are you from? (more polite) |
うまれ は 東京 です けど、 そだち は 大阪です。 | I was born in Tokyo but grew up in Osaka. |
あけまして おめでとう (ございます). | Happy New Year! (most polite) (said during the first 15 days of the New Year) |
よい おとしを | Wishing you a Good Coming New Year! (said before the New Year's) |
りょこう、 き を つけて( ね)。 | Travel, be careful. (said to a friend going on a trip) (casual) |
りょこう、 おき を つけて いって きて ください。 | Travel, and please be careful coming and going. (more polite) |
それ は いけません ね。 おだいじ に。 | This doesn't go (well). Take care. (said to someone who is ailing or has a family member who is ailing) |
ごめん ください. | Excuse me. (said when you first enter someone's house) |
おまちしてました. | I've been waiting (for you). (more casual) |
どうぞ。 あがって ください。 | Come this way. Please come in/step up. (said when the restof the house is about a foot higher than the entrance) |
おじゃまします。 | Excuse me for disturbing you. (said when you take your shoes off at someone's house) |
これ は つまらないもの です けど. | This is a humble gift for you. |
えんりょなく いただきます. | I will humbly receive it without any hesitation, the hesitation coming from humility. |
ごしゅじん が いつも おせわ に なって います. | Thank you for taking care of my husband. |
にほん は ながいん です か。 | Have you been in Japan long? |
にほん ご が おじょうず です か。 | Are you good at the Japanese language? |
いいえ、 まだ まだ へた です。 | No, (my Japanese language speaking skills) are still poor. |
そんなこと は ありません よ。 | No, that is not true (there is no such thing). (said after someone says they are poor at something). |
けっこん して いらっしゃいます か。 | Are you married? |
どこ に 行く の. | Where are you going? (casual with directional ni) |
どこ へ 行く の. | Where are you going? (casual with directional e) |
どちら へ . | Where are you going? (more polite) |
おでかけ です か. | Are you going out? (most polite) |
ちょっと郵便局 まで. | I'm going to the post office. (both casual and polite) |
ちょっと そこ まで。 | I'm going somewhere (a little far). (both casual and polite) |
あ、私もよ. | Oh, me too. (casual, female speaker) |
あ、 ぼく も だよ。 | Oh, me too. (casual, male speaker) |
あ, 私 も 何 です よ。 | Oh, that is also what I'm going to do. (polite) |
いっしょ に 行く? | Would you like to go together? (casual) |
いっしょ に 行きません か。 | Wouldn't you like to go together? (polite) |