I Love Kanjiご苦労様 (gokurousama)
ご苦労様 (ごくろうさま, gokurousama) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ごくろうさま
- Romaji
- gokurousama
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- thank you (for your hard work); I appreciate your efforts · expression, な-adjective · polite · usu. to one's subordinate
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of ご苦労様
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | ご苦労様だ | ごくろうさまだ gokurousamada |
| Present (polite) | ご苦労様です | ごくろうさまです gokurousamadesu |
| Negative | ご苦労様じゃない | ごくろうさまじゃない gokurousamajanai |
| Past | ご苦労様だった | ごくろうさまだった gokurousamadatta |
| Negative past | ご苦労様じゃなかった | ごくろうさまじゃなかった gokurousamajanakatta |
| Te-form | ご苦労様で | ごくろうさまで gokurousamade |
| Before a noun | ご苦労様な | ごくろうさまな gokurousamana |
| Adverb (~ni) | ご苦労様に | ごくろうさまに gokurousamani |
Kanji in ご苦労様
苦
suffering, trial, worryク・くる.しい・-ぐる.しい · 8 strokes労
labor, thank for, reward forロウ・ろう.する・いたわ.る · 7 strokes様
Esq., way, mannerヨウ・ショウ・さま・さん · 14 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with ご苦労様.
苦いにがいbitter (taste)苦痛くつうpain苦労くろうtrouble苦手にがてpoor (at)苦しいくるしいpainful苦しむくるしむto suffer苦くpain苦情くじょうcomplaint苦心くしんpains見苦しいみぐるしいunsightly無茶苦茶むちゃくちゃnonsensical労働ろうどうlabor過労かろうoverwork勤労きんろうlabor
Source: JMdict entry 1005030 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.