How to Say ‘Certainly.’ in Japanese
かしこまりました。
kashikomari mashi ta
[kashikomari mashi ta]
🇯🇵 In Japan: [かしこまりました] is very polite customer-service language. Staff use it with customers; in everyday conversation between friends it would sound too formal.
Phrase Breakdown
かしこまり
kashikomari
[kashikomari]
certainly; understood
A very polite customer-service expression meaning certainly or understood.
はい、かしこまりました。
Yes, certainly.
まし
mashi
[mashi]
polite past part
Part of the polite past form in かしこまりました. It helps make the expression formal and polite.
店員がましと言いました。
The clerk said 'mashi.'
た
ta
[ta]
past ending
The past ending part of a polite verb form, as in ました.
見ました。
I saw it.
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