How do you say "Thanks for your effort, good work" in Japanese?

Name: Japanese People Say This 10 Times a Day. English Has No Word for It.
Uploaded: 2026-07-21T21:57:51Z
Duration: 53 s
Description: Learn to say お疲れさまです (otsukaresama desu) — Thanks for your effort, good work. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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Japanese People Say This 10 Times a Day. English Has No Word for It.

To say Thanks for your effort, good work in Japanese, say お疲れさまです (otsukaresama desu).

It's not thank you. It's not goodbye. And most tourists use it in exactly the wrong place.

お疲れさまです otsukaresama desu Thanks for your effort, good work

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お疲れさまです。 otsukaresama desu. Thanks for your effort.
今日はお疲れさまでした。 kyou wa otsukaresama deshita. Thanks for today.

Why this phrase

Teaches 「お疲れさまです」, the phrase that closes most interactions in Japan, and the boundary tourists get wrong. It needs SHARED EFFORT: a tour guide at the end of the day, a cooking class instructor, someone you worked alongside. Said to a konbini cashier ringing up your rice ball it lands as strange, and that misuse warning is the spine of the video, not a footnote.