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Some verbs such as kaeru ‘returns’ can be used with
some form of the copula da or of the honorific polite copula
de gozaimasu, or of the exalted copula de irassharu.
O-kaeri (He) is returning.
desu.
O- (He) is returning.
kaeri de gozaimasu.
(He) is returning.
O-kaeri de
irasshaimasu.
Other examples are:
O- (He) is resting.
yasumi de gozaimasu.
(He) is out.
O-dekake de gozaimasu.
O- (He) is looking (for it).
sagashi de gozaimasu.
9.7. Special honorific verbs
For many common verbs, in addition to (or to the exclusion
of) regularly formed exalted and humble forms, Japanese
use special verbs or special infinitives for either the exalted
or the humble, or for both. In the table of special verbs
below, the verbs are arranged in three vertical columns,
humble, neutral, and exalted. Where there are blanks in the
table, it means there is no special verb for the humble or for
the exalted, but that the form can be made in the regular
