Grammar Info
N4 Lesson 7: 12/18
お~ください
Please do (Honorific)
お気をつけください is quite commonly used and accepted. This comes from treating 気をつける as one expression.
Structure
お + Verb[ます]+ ください
Details
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使用域
敬語
About お~ください
- こちらのサービスを使うにはインターネットでお申込みください。To use this service, please register via the internet.
- こちらのスリッパをお使いください。Please use these slippers over here.
- 後ろの扉をお閉めください。Please close the door behind you.
- どうぞ、こちらにお掛けください。Go ahead, please sit right here.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Examples
少しお待ちください。
Please wait just a minute.
どうぞお召し上がりください。
Please go ahead and eat.
しばらくお休みください。
Please take a short break.
どうぞ、お掛けください。
Please, have a seat.
明日までにお支払いください。
Please complete the payment by tomorrow.
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お~ください – Grammar Discussion
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bokudake
About 1 month ago
Please complete the payment by tomorrow.
明日までにお支払いください。(支払う)Doesn’t this example rather translate to please pay by tomorrow? Does お支払う mean to complete payment?
I tried answering with おしはらいおわりください (お支払い終わりください); is this bad Japanese?Fuga
About 1 month ago
Hey there @bokudake !
お支払い is a noun that means, ‘payment’. So a more direct translation for this would be, ‘Please do a payment by tomorrow’, but because that sounds ‘too unnatural’, we have used the word ‘complete’ in the English translation.
お支払い終わりください sounds a little unnatural, but not only that, it willchange the nuance of the sentence slightly . Since おわる means to ‘finish’ it will give the nuance that this payment has been going on for a while (like a loan). This is similar to how ‘making a payment’ and ‘finished a payment’ sound similar, but have a slight difference in nuance.
I hope this clears it up!
bokudake
About 1 month ago
Thanks for the explanation!
お支払い is a noun that means, ‘payment’.
I understand you take the verb 支払う (to pay) here and turn it into the masu-form 支払い, and add the honorofic prefix お like you do with any other verb in this grammatical structure (e.g. お使い, お閉め, …), which turns it into a noun.
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