ござる

Japanese

ござる (irregular conjugation, rōmaji gozaru)

御座る: (archaic) to exist, to be, to have
In classical Japanese ござる (gozaru) was the polite form of ある (aru), but applicable both to animate and to inanimate objects. It survives in modern Japanese only in the inflected forms ございました (gozaimashita), ございましたら (gozaimashitara), ございます (gozaimasu), and です (desu), originally a contraction of でございます (de gozaimasu).

Conjugation of "ござる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

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