First opened Saturday, January 12, 2008
お願いします
おねがいします
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Please (lit., I request)
Onegai shimasu is 御 (o-) plus 願う (negau, “request, implore”) plus します, the formal form of する (suru).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 願
In a sentence
魚をお願いします。
Fish, please.
ぜひお願いします。
By all means.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 御(お) (o-) + 願(ねが)う (negau, “request, implore”) + します (shimasu, a polite honorific (丁(てい)寧(ねい)語(ご) (teineigo)) formula used to show respect to the hearer). The latter portion is the formal or socially distanced form of する (suru). See also ます (-masu, suffix).”
Source: Wiktionary: お願いします (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.