いらっしゃる

Japanese

Etymology

Originally a contraction of いらせらる (iraseraru), itself an honorific conjugation of 入ら (ira, the 未然形 (mizenkei, “imperfective”) of verb iru, “to come in, to go in; to arrive; to be in a place”) + せ (se, the 未然形 (mizenkei, “imperfective”) of honorific auxiliary verb su) + らる (raru, the older form of passivizing auxiliary verb rareru, here serving as another honorific).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いらっしゃ​る [ìrássháꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • IPA(key): [iɾa̠ɕːa̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "いらっしゃる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
いらっしゃる いらっしゃ​る [ìrássháꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) いらっしゃい いらっしゃ​い [ìrássháꜜì]
Key constructions
Passive いらっしゃられる いらっしゃられ​る [ìrássháráréꜜrù]
Causative いらっしゃらせる いらっしゃらせ​る [ìrássháráséꜜrù]
Potential いらっしゃれる いらっしゃれ​る [ìrássháréꜜrù]
Volitional いらっしゃろう いらっしゃろ​ー [ìrássháróꜜò]
Negative いらっしゃらない いらっしゃら​ない [ìrássháráꜜnàì]
Negative perfective いらっしゃらなかった いらっしゃら​なかった [ìrássháráꜜnàkàttà]
Formal いらっしゃいます いらっしゃいま​す [ìrássháímáꜜsù]
Perfective いらっしゃった いらっしゃ​った [ìrássháꜜttà]
Conjunctive いらっしゃって いらっしゃ​って [ìrássháꜜttè]
Hypothetical conditional いらっしゃれば いらっしゃ​れば [ìrássháꜜrèbà]

Verb

いらっしゃる • (irassharu) intransitive godan (stem いらっしゃり (irasshari) or いらっしゃい (irasshai), past いらっしゃった (irasshatta))

  1. (honorific) to go
    • 1994, Yasuo Uchida, 三州吉良殺人事件 [Sanshū Kira Satsujin Jiken, Murder in Kira, Sanshū], Tōkyō: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd, →ISBN, page 28:
      孫(まご)娘(むすめ)は身(み)をよじらんばかりに恐(きょう)縮(しゅく)して、「あの、これからどちらへいらっしゃるのでしょうか?」と訊(き)いた。
      Magomusume wa mi o yojiran bakari ni kyōshuku shite, “ano, kore kara dochira e irassharu no deshō ka?” to kiita.
      The granddaughter asked, so shyly that she was practically writhing, "Um, where might you be going next?"
  2. (honorific) to come
    • 1933, Tatsuo Hori, 美しい村 [Utsukushii Mura, Beautiful Village]‎, Aozora Bunko:
      でも一(いっ)体(たい)、何(なん)時(じ)ごろあなた方(がた)はこちらへいらっしゃるのかしら?
      De mo ittai, nanji goro anatagata wa kochira e irassharu no kashira?
      But then, around what time would you be coming, I wonder?
  3. (honorific) to be
    山(やま)田(だ)さんはいらっしゃいますでしょうか。
    Yamada-san wa irasshaimasu deshō ka.
    Is Ms. Yamada there? (such as when telephoning a place of business)
    お元(げん)気(き)でいらっしゃいますか。
    O-genki de irasshaimasu ka.
    Are you doing well?

Usage notes

As listed above, いらっしゃる (irassharu) may be roughly synonymous with 行(い)く (iku, “to go”), 来(く)る (kuru, “to come”) or いる (iru, “to be”). Which meaning is intended depends on context. Compare お出(い)で (oide) of similarly broad and context-dependent meaning.

Conjugation

  • The -te form いらっしゃって (irasshatte) has the variants いらして (irashite), いらっして (irasshite), いらしって (irashitte), and いらっしって (irasshitte). Similarly, verb forms created from the addition of a suffix with initial /t/, such as た (-ta), たら (-tara), たり (-tari), たって (-tatte), etc., have analogous variants.

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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