WordList Letter - I

Itai - Ouch!, That hurt!, painful, its sore!. Used when the speaker feels sudden pain of some sort.

Irasshaimasu - Welcome, although the literal translation is "Be here". This standard welcome phrase is said to all costumers when they enter the store/restaurant/kissaten/etc. It is an honorific verb (ie only used to people socially above you) that literally means "to be (in a place)". The real feeling here is something like "Honour us by coming into our humble establishment".

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