Talk:Japanese/Vocabulary/Everyday Phrases

Evening

 * こんばんは - Konban wa - Good evening.
 * おやすみ - Oyasumi - Good night.
 * おやすみなさい - Oyasumi nasai - an emphatic "Good evening".

Oyasumi - good night and oyasumi nasai - good evening is it correct?

Matusz 11:27, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the late reply..
 * Oyasumi & Oyasumi nasai are the same, meaning good night (or literally "please rest"), only that the latter is more polite.
 * And konbanwa is good evening. Tomos 21:19, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Eh my typo on that, gomen ne? ^_^;; -- Emperorbma 07:04, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Is it true that すみません means both thank you and excuse me? Also, there seems to be Dōmo missing in the transkription of どうもすみません (section "Please and Thank You"). --62.203.232.241 14:23, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Missing
Could somebody add in an explanation for the past tense variations? Like in 200.34.166.34 18:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * doumo arigatou gozaimashita vs doumo arigatou gozaimasu
 * sumimasen deshita vs sumimasen


 * Alright, doumo arigatou gozaimashita is little too polite to say. Unless brown-nosing is the case.  You would simply say doumo arigatou- or you would say arigatou gozaimashita.  Likewise for the present tense form.  A rule of thumb here is the difference between shita (which is pronounce shta, unless talking to someone of high status then you will need to bust out shi-ta) and the masu only endings.
 * Masu is the present tense of a verb. For instance nani wo shimasu. Nani is the japanese for what when used to describe the object of a verb- wo is a particle used to indicate that the verb is going to be the next thing said- and shimasu( the present form of the verb).
 * Now in order to say something was doing in the past simply put shimashita. notice shimasushita.
 * Gozaimasu, indicating great thanks for something will be gozaimasushita in past tense form.
 * I would type more but it really is late and I just happened to be on :-).
 * Anata ha naze besuto tsukusanai desuka? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.178.16.196 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 29 September 2007.