344 CHAPTER 8. SET PHRASES
- Treating someone
means caring, in the giveable caring kind of way. Paired with ,
the combination
means ”to give care to someone” in the posi-
tive sense, and is generally understood as meaning you will be treating
someone to something. This phrase is used, for instance, when picking
up the tab for someone (this will naturally be paired with some refusal by
the treatee, and insistence on the part of the treater, but this is part of the
Japanese process of doing things for people).
- To be taken care of
Pairing with the verb , ”become”, the combination
means ”to be taken care of by someone” in the positive sense. For instance,
when someone is offering to do something for you like pay the bill after
dinner, or take care of you when you’re sick and you wish to oblige them,
you use the phrase to indicate that you will be taken
care of in some way by them.
( ) - ”Take care”
is a ”valuable thing”, in the figurative sense. When someone is told
, they are told to ”please act in a way so that they
are treating themselves as something valuable”. This full sentence is often
shortened to just.
For instance, when saying goodbye to someone who you will not
see in a while, you typically wish them so that you may meet
them again in good health at some point in the future.
/ - ”You’ve worked hard”
literally means ”the appearance of tiredness”, and comes from
the noun form of the verb , ”to tire”, prefixed with the honorific
and suffixed with the more classical likeness suffix ( ). This state-