お・ ご~になるRespectful action
This pattern respectfully describes an action performed by a customer, teacher, manager, or another person whose position you wish to raise. The respect is directed toward the person doing the action, not merely toward the listener.
Who receives the respect?
The person doing the action is the person being respected. English often has no special verb form for this distinction, so the translation may look ordinary even though the Japanese clearly raises the subject.
Questions and reports
The same construction works in questions, descriptions, and reports. Only the final なる changes for tense and politeness.
Raising the subject versus lowering yourself
The first sentence uses the target pattern to raise the manager who makes the decision. The second uses the neighboring humble pattern for the speaker's own action.
More examples
お客様はロビーでお待ちになります。
The customer will wait in the lobby.
Analyze先生はこの論文をお読みになりましたか。
Has the teacher read this paper?
Analyze部長は午後三時にお戻りになります。
The department manager will return at three in the afternoon.
Analyze社長は新しい計画をご説明になりました。
The company president explained the new plan.
Analyze会長は式典にご出席になります。
The chairperson will attend the ceremony.
Analyzeこのサービスをご利用になるお客様が増えています。
The number of customers using this service is increasing.
Analyzeこれは先生がお選びになった本です。
This is the book the teacher selected.
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