Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

4 Plain Honorific imasu, ikimsu, kimasu irasshaimasu tabemasu, nomimasu meshiagarimasu shimasu nasaimasu mimasu goran ni narimasu All other verbs can be converted into a honorific form by following the pattern below. O ＋ verb ( masu replaced by ni narimasu ) kakimasu  okaki ni narimasu write kaerimasu  okaeri ni narimasu go home Sensei irasshaimasu ka. Is the professor here? - Ie, okaeri ni narimashita. No, she went home. 5-1-4 Ko-so-a-do series #3 Kore , sore , are and dore , which came up in the last lesson, are representative of a pattern that you will see elsewhere in Japanese. In this lesson, we find three new ko-so-a- do series that indicate location. here there near you there away from both of us where location koko soko asoko doko general area/direction kochira sochira achira dochira direction (informal) kocchi socchi acchi docchi The kochira, sochira, achira, dochira series indicates the general area or direction, or the alternative of two. ( Dore means “which one of three or more while dochira means which one of the two). You may hear members of the kochira series used as more polite equivalents of the koko series—probably because the kochira series is more vague, it sounds more polite. Kochira is also used to indicate the speaker’s side of a telephone conversation and sochira the other side: Kochira wa Hiru desu This is Mr/s. Hill Sochira wa dou desu ka. How are you? Finally, the kotchi, sotchi, atchi, dotchi series is used among friends or in casual situations.