Miageru

By putting お or ご in front of nouns or adjectives, you make the vocab more polite. For example: お母さん (Mother), お茶 (Tea).

The prefix is more often used at some vocab than others. With some vocab (like お茶) it is even considered rude to leave the prefix away.

Note: お is mostly used for vocab with Japanese origin. ご is mostly used for vocab with Chinese origin.

Sample sentences

• 私とお母さんは病院に行きました
  Me and my mom went to the hospital
• お入りください
  Come in
• 火曜日はお暇ですか
  Are you free on tuesday?
• お元気ですか
  How are you?
• 並んでお待ちください
  Wait in line, please
• お休みなさい
  Good night
• お帰りなさい
  Welcome home
• あなたが出かける前にお会いしたい
  Meet before you go out
• シートベルトをお締めください
  Please fasten your seat belt
• あの店はお客さんが多い
  That shop has many customers