ようこそ
Japanese
Japanese phrasebook
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Etymology
yoku koso → you koso → yoːkoso. From the adverb 良く (yoku, “well”) and the emphatic particle こそ (koso). The medial -k- drops out and the resulting -ou- elide into a long vowel.
Pronunciation
Adverb
- welcome (greeting given upon someone's arrival)
- 日本へようこそ!
- Nihon e yōkoso!
- Welcome to Japan!
- 地球へようこそ!
- Chikyū e yōkoso!
- Welcome to Earth!
- 私たちの家へようこそ。
- Watashitachi no uchi e yōkoso.
- Welcome to our home.
- 2001 August 27, Kozue Amano, “[Navigation](ナビゲーション)01 [水](みず)の[惑](わく)[星](せい) [Navigation01 The Water Planet]”, in (deprecated template usage) AQUA [AQUA], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Enix, →ISBN, page 10:
- 水の惑星「AQUA」へようこそ
- Mizu no Wakusei “Akua” e yōkoso
- Welcome to “AQUA,” the Water Planet
- 水の惑星「AQUA」へようこそ
- 日本へようこそ!
References
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN