Saying "Your welcome"

[McCrutch67]

I was wondering if there was a "you're welcome" statement in japanese. There are all the normal beginning learning a language type phrases like please(onegai shimasu/kudasai), thank you(arigatou), and other stuff like that but I don't know if there's any kind of response to "thank you." Do they have generic being-polite responses for thank you?

 

[Stutz]

From what I've heard, it's always "Dou Itashimashite." but that's for formal situations and there are probably others that are less or more formal.

 

[Elizabeth]

Simply saying "いいえ" is very common, there may be others as well though.

 

[Sensuikan San]

I think Stutz is right. I do hope so ... I've been practising it for a long time, now !

 

[TwistedMac]

Simply saying "いいえ" is very common, there may be others as well though.

Feels a lot like if you'd say "no, not at all"... Which I guess is very Japanese

(wooo, 3000 posts eliza! cause for celebration!)

 

[orochi]

どういたしまして is not used too often and is considered by many (Japanese included) to be kind of "textbook Japanese." You're much better off saying いいえ or いいよ or something similar, depending on the formality required. You could even say こちらこそ which would translate roughly to "No, no, thank you."

 

[J44xm]

Great info, Orochi. Thanks.

 

[Leroy_Brown]

Someone once told me to remember "Dou itashimashite" as "Don't touch my mustache"

 

[Alter Zetsuei]

Someone once told me to remember "Dou itashimashite" as "Don't touch my mustache"

Wow, for me this is a whole new way of studying for exams!