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#ffi# (respect form) is used when you are talking about an action or state of someone to
whom you have to show respect. So, when you talk about the action of your teacher, for
example, you use ëötffi.
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ffiæffi (humble form) is used when you are talking about your own or your family member's
action. There are two types of ffi#ffi-l and fI. Type I is used when you (or your family
member's) action directly involves the other to whom you want to show respect (e.g., visiting
a superior's house or helping your superior with his/trer luggage, etc.) By humbling your own
action, you are in effect showing respect to your superior. Type II, which is called iH#
(courteous form) is generally used when you want to talk about your own action or state in a
humble manner just to be polite to the addressee. TEÉffi is used when your action does not
directþ involve your superior, but most likely the person you are talking to is your superior or
someone to whom you want to be very polite. So, if you are going to your superior's house
(or officeJ,, you use ñ i . If you ¿ue reporting to your superior that you went somewhere, then
you use * â (see illustrations in (1)). Similarly, if you are asking your superior to let you
look at his/her or" HHf å. If you are telling you superior that you went to see a
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movie, you say 4E?8,* Ll¿ (see illustrations in (2)).
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(2)
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ff there are no special respect forms, use [*aV(stem) l: r¡ b * T] . If there are no special hum-
ble forms, use [*a V (stem) ¿ gç /u,lc L * T] .
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