お出で

Japanese
Kanji in this term
出
い
Grade: 1

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) +‎ 出で (ide), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem form”) of Old Japanese verb 出づ (izu, antecedent of modern 出る deru “to go out, to appear”).[1][2] This ide form is not found in isolation in modern Japanese.

Pronunciation

Noun

お出で (hiragana おいで, rōmaji oide)

  1. (honorific) the act of going somewhere
  2. (honorific) the act of coming somewhere
  3. (honorific) the act of being somewhere

Usage notes

As listed above, お出で can variously mean going, coming, or being in one place. Which meaning is intended depends on context. Compare いらっしゃる (​irassharu) of similarly broad and context-dependent meaning.

Verb

お出で (hiragana おいで, rōmaji oide)

  1. (honorific) go, come, be: short for various longer verbal phrases ending in request or command words, such as なさい (nasai, polite command suffix) or 下さい (kudasai, “please”), or honorific endings, such as になる (​ni ​naru, “to become, to do”).
    あの二 (ふた)人 (り)はまた外国 (がいこく)にお出 (い)でかな。
    Ano futari wa mata gaikoku ni oide kana.
    So those two are going overseas again, huh.
    こちらへお出 (い)でよ。
    Kochira e oide yo.
    Come here, will you.
    静 (しず)かにしてお出 (い)で。
    Shizuka ni shite oide.
    (Please) be quiet.

Usage notes

The command and request senses are more colloquial, and are often used by parents to their children. The honorific sense can, with certain additional honorific endings, be used to describe the activities of even the imperial family.

See also

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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