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7 Jun 2015
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What does 「さようでございますか。かしこまりました。」 mean?
What does 「さようでございますか。かしこまりました。」 mean?
それに、「さ」の意味は何ですか?TOFUGUよりです。
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7 Jun 2015
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さようでございますか。かしこまりました。 - polite superlative and formal
I see. I have received your request surely.
I see. I have understand your meaning surely.
Paraphrases are;
さようですか。承知しました/承りました。 - formal and common
そうですか。わかりました。 - casual
さよう(左様 or 然様, pronoun) means そのよう(such / so).
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- Japanese Near fluent
Today? Understood. Or depending on the context you can translate it as: Will it be today? Certainly! The language is very formal.
- Japanese Near fluent
「さ」can be used in a number of ways. 1) As a nominalizing (convert a word, a phrase, verb or adjective into a noun). For example, 「深い」becomes 「深さ」as in "欲の深さが彼を没落させた。His greed brought him low."
2) Colloquially, 「さ」is used to as sentence ending or as assertion/emphasis by men. For example, "僕は月へ飛んで行くつもりさ。
I'm going to fly to the moon."
- English (US)

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さようでございますか。かしこまりました。 - polite superlative and formal
I see. I have received your request surely.
I see. I have understand your meaning surely.
Paraphrases are;
さようですか。承知しました/承りました。 - formal and common
そうですか。わかりました。 - casual
さよう(左様 or 然様, pronoun) means そのよう(such / so).
- English (UK)
Yeah, someone asked that on the TextFugu forums a while back, too - I had to actually research it. It's an extremely formal and slightly archaic way of saying そうですか
Think Koichi was off his rocker when he picked that example sentence because it doesn't actually use the word it's meant to be demonstrating.
- English (US)
I thought so hahaha. All my research h and browsing of さ lead me to suffixes that this example didn't have lol. Welp, everyone here has been amazing!
- English (UK)
さよう = 左様 is a word in its own right, not a stand-alone さ.

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