でそう
Japanese
For pronunciation and definitions of
でそう
– see the following entry.
【
で候
】
[verb]
(
archaic
,
obsolete
)
to be: the
copula
. Polite form of
である
(
de aru
)
.
(This term,
でそう
(
desō
)
, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)