おはようございます

Japanese

Alternative spellings
お早うございます
お早う御座います
御早う御座います
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Etymology

Phrase consisting of おはよう (ohayō, “early”, formal, adverbial) + ございます (gozaimasu, “it is”, formal).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) おはよーございます [òháyóó gózáímáꜜsù] (Nakadaka – [8])[2]
  • IPA(key): [o̞ha̠jo̞ː ɡo̞za̠ima̠sɨ̥]
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Interjection

おはようございます • (ohayō gozaimasu) ←おはやうございます (ofayaugozaimasu)?

  1. good morning

Usage notes

In more casual speech, may be shortened to just おはよう (ohayō).

Also spelled in kanji various ways. Generally, the more kanji used, the more formal the written form.

This phrase is said to people whom one meets in the first time in a day. Therefore, sometimes this phrase can also be heard in the afternoon or even in the evening, especially among night shift workers and entertainment industry, etc. However, as people mostly meet each other in the morning, this phrase is translated as "good morning" under normal circumstances.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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