ござる

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

to be

Polite (teineigo) copula, archaic in its dictionary form; in modern Japanese almost always used as ございます.

See also: ございます

• こちらが会かい場じょうでございます。

  This is the venue.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

to come; to go; to be (somewhere)

Honorific (sonkeigo) verb for movement or location, archaic in its dictionary form; in modern Japanese almost always used as ございます.

• お客きゃく様さまがまもなくこちらにございます。

  The guest will be here shortly.

auxiliary verb, godan verb (-ru)

to be (doing)

Honorific auxiliary verb attached to the ～て form of a verb; archaic in its dictionary form, but ～てございます is still used in very formal contexts.

• お待まちしてございます。

  I am waiting (humble-polite).