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mōshimashita ka. You do not use Honorifics to describe a co-worker’s action
when talking to him, but you may want to use them when talking to his parent
about him, since they are in one group to which you don’t belong. The only
person you can always count on as your In-group is yourself.
The chart below shows the special Honorific and Humble forms.
The honorific verbs ossharu, irassharu, kudasaru, nasaru, and polite verb
gozaru constitute the verb group called Special Polite Verbs. They follow the
inflection rules for U-verbs except that before masu, the /r/ ending drops, and /u/
becomes /i/.
Ossharu → osshaimasu
For the other verbs, there are the Honorific formula and the Humble formula.
The Honorific O +verb stem + ni naru
formula:
kaku → okaki ni naru “write”
matsu → omachi ni “wait”
naru
The Humble O + verb stem + suru
formula:
