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This is a respectful honorific construction used to describe the actions or states of someone the speaker wishes to show respect to, such as a superior, a customer, or an elder. It is more polite than standard polite forms.
This pattern is used with most native Japanese verbs. You take the ます stem of the verb, prefix it with
先生は
The teacher has returned home.
何を
What will you drink?
This construction cannot be used for the speaker's own actions. It is also not used with single-syllable verbs like 見る (to see) or 寝る (to sleep). Some verbs have special honorific forms (like いらっしゃる for 行く) which are generally preferred over this construction.
This construction is used for verbs derived from Chinese characters (Sino-Japanese words), typically those that end in する.
For verbs consisting of a noun plus する, the prefix
社長が
The president is worried.
こちらを
Please make use of this.
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