Help Proper way to wish health and well-being upon leaving

[Fearabhata]

Greetings to you

So context-wise when leaving a restaurant and wishing everyone to stay healthy during this damn corona crisis, how would you say it?

Thought about something like

"Minasan, kenkou iji shimashou!"
kenkou [health], iji [take care of/perserve]

So in a sense, it would mean to take care of eachothers health, also used shimashou to put an emphasis on mutual efforts, don't know if it is fine to use it in this sentence.

I used it in a similar way during a conversation, would love to check if this goofy form is correct:
Izure mata wo hanashimashishou
[Lets talk eventually again soon]
I am kinda weird how to express events in the future, also tend to mix up the particles "ha" and "wo"

Also found online on another platform the expression "Genki de ite kudasai".. I think this one is more casual and meant for one person.

I am pretty sure there is an expression with the kana *ki* 気 , since it seems to be an important part of the japanese vocabulary revolving around spirit, mind and body ^^

 

[Majestic]

Mina-san, karada wo kiotsukete kudasai. Mata o-aishimashō
みなさｎ、からだ を き を つけてください。また お あいしましょう

This is a kind of set phrase, whereas kenkō iji shimashō sounds unnatural (even though the meaning would be understood). It almost sounds like a teacher giving instructions to his/her students.

"Izure" isn't needed. The future is implied in the word "mata".
Also note that there are some redundant letters in your spelling of "hanashimashō"

Next bit of advice I would like to give is to learn hiragana as soon as possible. There are only 46 hiragana, all representing one sound in Japanese orthography. They are fairly easy to learn, as they all fit (more or less) neatly on a grid that makes it easy to memorize. This will be a huge first step in learning more Japanese.

 

[Fearabhata]

okay, so it is wrong , but how to say it then otherwise ^^ Also I exxlusively know only Hiragana with just a few Kanji..

 

[Majestic]

Mina-san, karada wo kiotsukete kudasai. Mata o-aishimashō
みなさｎ、からだ を き を つけてください。また お あいしましょう

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Early 70's in Fukuoka , you often said goodby with ki o tsukete and the military guys murdered the phrase into kio spaghetti .

 

[Majestic]

too late to edit my post but I probably should have made it
みなさん、おからだ を き を つけてください。

 

[Fearabhata]

much appreciated ^^
So it is like the plural te-form of "ki-wo-tsuru"? Though the "minasan" is important because there are hardly any possibilities make it clear in the other wordings.. but that's the German in me speaking ^^

 

[Majestic]

No, there are no plural forms in Japanese.
In Japanese, once you say "Mina-san" at the beginning, everything following that will be assumed to be applicable to the whole group.

Ki wo tsukete き を つけて Literally means "apply thought", but idiomatically it means to take care, or be careful.
Karada wo ki wo tsukete からだ を き を つけて Means to take care of yourself ("stay healthy"). If you add the honorific "O" at the beginning (O-karada wo ki wo tsukete) it makes it sound a bit more polite.

 

[Fearabhata]

however, doubt "Kenkou iji.." would even be correct.. shouldnt it be joint with a particle? Kenkou ga iji?

 

[Majestic]

kenkō wo iji - would be the correct syntax.

 

[Toritoribe]

からだをきをつけて is not entirely wrong, but からだにきをつけて is more common and natural.