Honorifics play a huge role in the Japanese language. They define underlying power dynamics and help the speaker express deference to the listener without being explicit.
It is the one area of the language where it is as essential to understand the culture as is it to understand the grammar and syntax.
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Three groups: honorific, humble, polite
3つのグループ：尊敬語、謙譲語、丁寧語
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