お願い

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
願
ねが Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) おねがい (Heiban – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

お願(ねが)い • (onegai) ^{←おねがひ (onegafi)^?}

petition (the honorific form of 願い)

Interjection

お願(ねが)い • (onegai) ^{←おねがひ (onegafi)^?}

used as the word for please, familiar honorific.
- 2003 March 19 [2001 December 29], Yumi Hotta with Obata, Takeshi, “第(だい)129(ひゃくにじゅうきゅう)局(きょく)　もどって来(こ)い！ [Game 129: Come Back!]”, in ヒカルの碁 [Hikaru’s Go], 6th edition, volume 15 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, pages 78–79:
  
  オレなんかいらねェ！もう打(う)ちたいって言(い)わねェよ！だから　神(かみ)さま！お願(ねが)いだ！はじめにもどして！アイツを会(あ)った一(いち)番(ばん)はじめに時(じ)間(かん)をもどして‼
  Ore nan ka ira nē! Mō uchitaitte iwa nē yo! Dakara Kami-sama! Onegai da! Hajime ni modoshite! Aitsu o atta ichiban hajime ni jikan o modoshite‼
  I don’t need anything! I won’t ask to play any more! So, God! I’m begging you! Return things back to the beginning! Turn time back to when I first met him, please!!

Synonyms

(more polite) お願(ねが)いします (onegai shimasu)

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