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5 May 2017
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お貸ししましょうか?
Does this sound natural?
お貸ししましょうか?
Does this sound natural?
Does this sound natural?

Im supposed to offer help(politely). Is it also ok to say something like this?
傘をお貸ししましょうか?
お傘を貸しましょうか?
傘をお貸ししましょうか?
お傘を貸しましょうか?
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5 May 2017
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@personanongrata Oh, this got be difficult!!!
One of the possibilities is "ご一緒します?(Goissho shimasu?)".
Some mangas show the scene a girl asks a boy to be under her umbrella, but I've never seen nor been asked by a girl in reality.......
Now I show you a new word 相合傘.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B8%E5%90%...
And here is a Manga from:
月刊少女野崎くん:
http://www.ganganonline.com/contents/nozaki/

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傘をお貸ししましょうか?is the best among them, I think.
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@cametan_001 If I had only one umbrella, and I wanted to offer going together under this one umbrella、 would it be okay to say 一緒にお行きしましょうか?
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@personanongrata Oh, this got be difficult!!!
One of the possibilities is "ご一緒します?(Goissho shimasu?)".
Some mangas show the scene a girl asks a boy to be under her umbrella, but I've never seen nor been asked by a girl in reality.......
Now I show you a new word 相合傘.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B8%E5%90%...
And here is a Manga from:
月刊少女野崎くん:
http://www.ganganonline.com/contents/nozaki/

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@cametan_001 @ukeruu Thank you guys! Very detailed answer cametan_001, many thanks! I didnt know there was a word for sharing an umbrella! Amazing!

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