とんでもございません
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Japanese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the adjective とんでもない by replacing ない with ございません.
Interjection[edit]
とんでもございません • (tondemogozaimasen)
Usage notes[edit]
Commonly considered a mistake because とんでもない is handled as an adjective in modern Japanese grammar and replacing the ない with ございません to make a polite form is thus a mistake according to the grammar. Although etymologically とんでもない is not a single word but an expression (途でもない), it is used like a single word today except for the non-standard polite forms とんでもありません and とんでもございません.