お供
おとも
attendant; companion; accompanying someone (of higher status)
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Examples
ぜひお供したいものです。
ぜひおともしたいものです。
I would very much like to come along with you.
社長のお供で大阪へ行ってきた。
しゃちょうのおともでおおさかへいってきた。
I went to Osaka accompanying the company president.
この一冊が旅のお供にぴったりだ。
このいっさつがたびのおともにぴったりだ。
This book is the perfect companion for a trip.
Common patterns
- お供をする
- to accompany (a superior)
- 旅のお供
- a travelling companion (often an object)
- お供に加わる
- to join the party attending someone
Memory tip
Humble: you offer to be someone's お供, you never call your own guest one. 供 also appears in 供える (to offer to the gods), so keep the spelling apart from お伴, an older variant of the same word.
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