謙

Vocabulary (12)

• 謙遜語

  けんそんご

  humble language

• 謙譲語

  けんじょうご

  humble language (e.g. itadaku)

• 謙譲語１

  けんじょうごいち

  humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)

• 謙抑

  けんよく

  humbling oneself

• 謙譲の美徳

  けんじょうのびとく

  modest virtue

• 謙譲語２

  けんじょうごに

  humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party)

• 謙虚

  けんきょ

  modest

• 謙辞

  けんじ

  modest word

• 恭謙

  きょうけん

  modesty

• 謙譲

  けんじょう

  modesty

• 謙称

  けんしょう

  self-deprecating term

• 謙る

  へりくだる

  to deprecate oneself and praise the listener