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N4

Everyday Honorific and Humble Verbs

Learn the most useful everyday honorific and humble verbs for service encounters, polite conversation, and basic workplace reading.

Recognize high-frequency honorific verbs such as いらっしゃる and おっしゃる.Recognize high-frequency humble verbs such as 参る, 申す, and うかがう.Read simple service and workplace language without getting lost.
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High-frequency honorific verbs

Honorific verbs raise the other person or the person being talked about. At N4, focus on the most common high-frequency forms rather than the whole keigo system.

先生はもういらっしゃいました。

The teacher has already arrived.

社長は何とおっしゃいましたか。

What did the company president say?

どうぞこちらをご覧ください。

Please look over here.

ご覧ください is a common honorific request.

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