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お邪魔します
おじゃまします
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Excuse me for disturbing you
Saying “excuse me for disturbing you” is, word by word, an honorific, a “nuisance”, and “do”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 御(お) (o-, honorific prefix) + 邪(じゃ)魔(ま) (jama, “nuisance, bother”) + します (shimasu, formal of する (suru), “to do”).”
Source: Wiktionary: お邪魔します (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
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.