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Japanese also has a word you say to the cook, ご馳走様でした (gochisousama deshita) but that's said after the meal as thanks.
by dllu 2mo ago
Japanese also has a word you say to the cook, ご馳走様でした (gochisousama deshita) but that's said after the meal as thanks.
- stevefan1999 2mo agoI used to hear that when you finished eating ramen and you should say this as a replacement speech of "thank you". It basically means "It must be tired of you to go around to design and prepare for the meal" which implicitly implied an appreciation
- fluoridation 2mo agoYou can look it up, it's in online dictionaries. gochisou: "feast" sama: honorific deshita: past conjugation of "desu", meaning "is"; thus, "was" In other words, "[that] was a feast".
- stevefan1999 2mo ago語源は、食事の準備のために駆け回ることを意味する「馳走（ちそう）」という言葉にあります。そこに、敬意を表す接頭語の「ご」と接尾語の「様」が結びつき、「ご馳走様（ごちそうさま）」という表現になりました。現在では、食事を用意してくれた人や、ごちそうしてくれた人に対するお礼の言葉として広く使われています。 from https://jp.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/thank-you-for-meal https://jp.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/thank...
- dllu 2mo agoTalking about being "tired", the phrase お疲れ様でした (otsukaresama deshita) is commonly used to express "thanks for the hard work" and it's a catch-all greeting for coworkers now, but it literally means something like "o tired one" and the character 疲 still means tired.
- charcircuit 2mo agoThere's also a word you say when food is brought to you, ありがとうございます.
- deaton 2mo agoThats just a very general thank you.
- charcircuit 2mo agoAnd itadakimasu is general too. That doesn't mean there aren't contexts where it is likely to be said in relation to the process of eating food from others.