List: humble (kenjougo) language
Words used in kenjougo or humble language, used to lower the position of the speaker or the subject of the conversation.
humble language noun noun (generic)
- (one's own) abilities and intelligence
noun noun (generic) humble language
- foolish plan
- (one's own) plan, one's modest proposal
humble language expression
- needless to say, obviously, of course
humble language expression ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- there's no (other) way
- cannot be helped, unavoidable, inevitable, (there's) nothing one can do, having no choice
- it's no use (doing), pointless, useless, no good, insufficient, not enough
- hopeless (person), annoying, troublesome, awful
- cannot stand it, unbearable, cannot help (doing, feeling), dying (to do)
humble language expression noun noun (generic) adverb
- small token of one's sentiments
- just slightly, only a bit
humble language adverb
- to the best of one's meager ability, the little help one can be, though my help might not be worth much
noun noun (generic) archaic humble language female term pronoun
- mistress, kept woman, concubine
- I, me
humble language pronoun
- I, me
humble language expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to work hard, to keep one's nose to the grindstone, to whip a jaded horse
- to make someone do what is beyond their ability
rare term noun noun (generic) humble language
- short letter, brief note
- (one's) letter