ゴヨウ – Vocabulary details

ゴヨウ

Meanings

Noun

Honorific

1. (your) business; (your) concern; (your) need

私わたしに何なにか御ご用ようですか？Is there something you need from me?

2. (customer's) order

なるほど、お客きゃくさんの家いえに行いって、御ご用ようを聞きくんですね？I see, so you visit customers at home and take orders?

3. official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.)

父ちちは幕ばく府ふの御ご用ようで江え戸どへ向むかった。My father went to Edo on official business for the shogunate.

4. arrest; capture

犯はん人にんはあっさり御ご用ようとなった。The culprit was arrested without any trouble.

Pre-noun adjective

5. subservient to an authority (esp. the government); pro-government

御ご用ようメディアは政せい府ふに都つ合ごうの悪わるいことを報ほうじない。Pro-government media don't report things that are inconvenient for the government.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

ゴ

ヨ

ウ

Composed of

ゴ

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

ヨウ

business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

Used in vocabulary (14 in total)

オヤスイゴヨウ

easy task; no problem

ゴヨウショウニン

purveyor (to the government or Imperial Household)

ゴヨウキキ

the rounds of tradesmen going door to door; route man; door-to-door tradesman; thief taker; secret policeman

11 more...

Examples (6 in total)

私わたしに何なにかごようゴヨウですか？

Is there something you need from me?

ごようゴヨウは何なんでしょうか。

What shall I do for you?

犯はん人にんはあっさりごようゴヨウとなった。

The culprit was arrested without any trouble.