ご用 – Vocabulary details

ご用よう

Meanings

Noun

Honorific

1. (your) business; (your) concern; (your) need

2. (customer's) order

3. official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.)

4. arrest; capture

Pre-noun adjective

5. subservient to an authority (esp. the government); pro-government

Alt. forms

Kanji used

用

used for

Pitch accent

ご

よ

う

Used in: 1487

Composed of

ご

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

用よう

business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

Used in vocabulary (7 in total)

お安やすいご用よう

easy task; no problem

ご用よう達だち

purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.); company (or restaurant, place, etc.) that caters to or is popular with a specific clientele

ご用ようの方かた

customer; guest

ご用よう聞きき

the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman

ご用よう納おさめ

year-end office closing (usu. Dec. 28)

ご用よう組くみ合あい

a company union

ご用よう始はじめ

re-opening of offices in New Year (usu. January 4)

Examples (4 in total)

はい、何なんかご用ようでしょうか。

May I help you?

「何なんかご用ようは？」「ドレスを探さがしています」

"May I help you?" "Yes, I'm looking for a dress."

韓かん国こくにはどういったご用ようで来こられましたか？

What brought you to Korea?

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