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02-02-2021, 03:19 PM

**** お疲れ様:OTSUKARE-SAMA ****
"O-TSUKARE" is a polite form of "TSUKARE; tired".

This is greeting for your colleagues meaning "Are you tired ?I'm tired too".

This is a kind of behavior named "NEGIRA-U : to express thanks for the work".

"polite form of some concept" with "SAMA" are often appeared in Japanese like as "OSEWA-SAMA", "OAINIKU-SAMA"or "GOCHISOU-SAMA". Does someone study about these kind of "the humanization of the concept"?


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