Formal messages often combine respectful forms for the recipient with humble forms for the writer or their group.
The idea
Use お送りいたします for your own sending and 伺います for your own visit; ご確認いただけますか requests the recipient’s action as a favour. ご確認くださいました acknowledges an action they did for you.
Examples
- 資料をお送りいたします。I will send you the documents.
- 資料をご確認いただけますか。Could you please check the documents?
- 部長がご確認くださいました。The department manager kindly checked it.
- 明日、担当者が伺います。Our representative will visit tomorrow.
- 会議に社長がいらっしゃいます。The president will attend the meeting.
- ご返信をお待ちしております。I look forward to your reply.
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Watch out
Do not use いらっしゃいます for your own visit. The right form depends on the person performing the action and the relationship, not simply on making every verb more elaborate.
Try it yourself
私が資料をお送り＿。（いたします／いらっしゃいます）
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いたします
いたします is humble and describes the writer sending the documents.
部長が資料をご確認＿。（くださいました／いたしました）
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くださいました
くださいました respectfully acknowledges the manager’s action as a favour received.
私が明日＿。（伺います／いらっしゃいます）
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伺います
伺います is the humble form for the writer’s visit; いらっしゃいます respects someone else’s movement.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Japanese sentences where available. We keep your score.
私が資料をお送り＿。（いたします／いらっしゃいます）
部長が資料をご確認＿。（くださいました／いたしました）
私が明日＿。（伺います／いらっしゃいます）
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Write a short message offering to send documents and asking the recipient to check them. Identify who performs each action.