Humble and Honorific Language By: Word-Master Leo, Mixer of Ill Beats Why Bother With It? I mean, I'm never going to use it, right? People you will hear けいご from: Cashiers ● Grocery Store Employees ● Waitresses at your favorite cafe ● That lady at the store who refuses to give you more than one sample, that jerk ● Bank employees ● The lady who wraps your purchases up because you weren't listening and she asked if you wanted it gift wrapped. ● Basically, any time you are dealing with customer service and retail people. That is, all the time. ● Okay, So People Use It How do I use it? Well, it's pretty easy with a handy-dandy chart: Plain するいくくるいるみるきくいうあげるくれるもらうたべるしっている Honorific なさいますいらっしゃいますいらっしゃいますいらっしゃいますごらんになりますーおっしゃいますーくださいますーめしあがりますごぞんじ（です） Humble いたしますまいりますまいりますおりますはいけんしますうかがいますもうしますさしあげますーいただきますいただきますぞんじます What if it’s not on the chart? It’s simple! Humble Form: お＋stem＋します Honorable Form: お＋stem＋になりますびかご（美化語） or Beautiful Language This is the addition of お- or ご- to words. You already know quite a few! Copied straight from wikipedia because I am lazy: 「お/ご」をつける - 店→お店 / 茶→お茶心配→ご心配 / 飯（めし）→ご飯・・・ Generally! おんよみ：ごくんよみ：お Things I forgot to add earlier Some words have a different form when using けいご: ある→ござるです→でござる (this comes from the form である) いい→よろしい A Fun Game to Play Next time Ueda corrects you if you use short form with her? Restate the sentence using けいご and she will be mind-blown!