でいらっしゃるis, are (respectful, of a person)
田中様でいらっしゃいますか: staff checking who you are. This is です said with respect about a person: who they are, or how they are.
How to form it
(person は) + Noun/な-adjective + でいらっしゃる
Nearly always でいらっしゃいます, with い; past でいらっしゃいました.
- Before it
- A name, a title or a job. Or a な-adjective about them, usually with お: お元気, お好き.
- Said about
- The person you are talking to, their family, or someone you both look up to.
- Where you'll meet it
- Staff checking your name at a counter or on the phone, introductions, speeches, polite letters.
In use
Professor Yamada is today's lecturer.
Where are you from, Professor?
Is your father a doctor?
At that time, Ms. Sato was the branch manager.
Who is it about?
Respectful forms raise what the other person does. Humble forms lower what you, or your side, do. You never raise yourself, and to an outsider you never raise your own family or company.
でいらっしゃる is respectful: the same いらっしゃる as the respectful go, come and be. It is about the other person, so you answer without it.
Excuse me, are you Ms. Yamamoto?
はい、山本でいらっしゃいます would raise you.
でいらっしゃる or でございます?
Both are です made more formal. でございます only makes the sentence more polite: it is for things, for yourself and for your side. About the other person, the careful choice is でいらっしゃいます, which raises them.
Here are the materials for the meeting.
A thing.
This is the new museum director.
A person you are raising.
Are you Mr. Tanaka?
Staff say this too. It is polite, but it doesn't raise you.
Close neighbours
On its own, the respectful go, come and be. After a て-form, the respectful ている.
The teacher is talking with a student right now.
Check yourself
1You answer the phone at work and give your name. Which one fits?
はい、
Choose an answer to see why.
2Which sentence is right?
Choose an answer to see why.
More detail
お忙しくていらっしゃる
An い-adjective takes くていらっしゃる.
The professor is always busy.
More sentences
The chairman is still in good health.
Professor Suzuki was the chair of this academic society for many years.
This is Ms. Tanaka, the new board chair.
I heard that the company president is still doing very well.