Japanese

Alternative forms

• 御出で, 御出

Noun

お出で ‎(hiragana おいで, romaji oide)

1. (honorific) the act of going somewhere
2. (honorific) the act of coming somewhere
3. (honorific) the act of being somewhere

Usage notes

As listed above, お出で can variously mean going, coming, or being in one place. Which meaning is intended depends on context. Compare いらっしゃる (​irassharu) of similarly broad and context-dependent meaning.

Verb

お出で ‎(hiragana おいで, romaji oide)

1. (honorific) go, come, be: short for various longer verbal phrases ending in request or command words, such as なさい ‎(nasai, polite command suffix) or 下さい ‎(kudasai, “please”), or honorific endings, such as になる (​ni ​naru, “to become, to do”).

   あの二人 (ふたり)はまた外国 (がいこく)にお出 (い)でかな。

   Ano futari wa mata gaikoku ni oide kana.

   So those two are going overseas again, huh.

   こちらへお出 (い)でよ。

   Kochira e oide yo.

   Come here, will you.

   静 (しず)かにしてお出 (い)で。

   Shizukani shite oide.

   (Please) be quiet.

Usage notes

The command and request senses are more colloquial, and are often used by parents to their children. The honorific sense can, with certain additional honorific endings, be used to describe the activities of even the imperial family.

See also

• お出でになる ‎(oide ni naru)

References

1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3