お願い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ねが
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ねがい [ònégáí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [o̞ne̞ɡa̠i]

Noun

(ねが) • (onegaiおねがひ (onegafi)?

  1. petition (the honorific form of 願い)

Interjection

(ねが) • (onegaiおねがひ (onegafi)?

  1. used as the word for please, familiar honorific.
    • 2003 March 19 [2001 December 29], Yumi Hotta with Obata, Takeshi, “(だい)129(ひゃくにじゅうきゅう)(きょく) もどって()い! [Game 129: Come Back!]”, in ヒカルの碁 [Hikaru’s Go], 6th edition, volume 15 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, pages 78–79:
      オレなんかいらねェ!もう()ちたいって()わねェよ!だから (かみ)さま!(ねが)いだ!はじめにもどして!アイツを()った(いち)(ばん)はじめに()(かん)をもどして‼︎
      Ore nan ka ira nē! Mō uchitaitte iwa nē yo! Dakara Kami-sama! Onegai da! Hajime ni modoshite! Aitsu o atta ichiban hajime ni jikan o modoshite‼︎
      I don’t need anything! I won’t ask to play any more! So, God! I’m begging you! Return things back to the beginning! Turn time back to when I first met him, please!!

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