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05-24-2011, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Maxful View Post
Hi, could someone kindly check if the following sentences are correct?

1a. 中村さんは七時にいらっしゃいます。
1b. 中村さんは七時にこられます。

2a. 部長の奥様もごいっしょにゴルフにいらっしゃいます。
2b. 部長の奥様もごいっしょにゴルフに行かれます。

3. どのくらい日本語を勉強していらっしゃいますか。

4. 彼はドイツの映画を見ていらっしゃいます。
As far as grammar, those are all correct. However, not many native speakers would say #4 using a pronoun because a combination of a 3rd-person pronoun and the honorific form of a verb doesn't sound very good in the Japanese ear. We would use the person's actual name.


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