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your home; your residence (honorific)
A polite way to refer to someone else's home. The prefix ご adds respect. Used in business, customer service, and formal speech.
ご自宅までお届けします。
We will deliver it to your home.
ご自宅の住所を教えていただけますか。
Could you tell me your home address?
商品はご自宅に直接配送いたしますので、店頭でお受け取りいただく必要はございません。
The product will be delivered directly to your home, so there is no need to pick it up at the store.
The honorific prefix ご attached to 自宅 (one's own home). This is a standard polite form used to refer to someone else's home in formal and business contexts. It is never used to refer to one's own home — that would be 自宅 without the ご prefix.
This word is extremely common in customer service, delivery services, medical offices, and formal correspondence.
USAGE:
- Use ご自宅 when referring to someone else's home (respectful)
- Use 自宅 when referring to your own home (humble/neutral)
- The pattern parallels other ご-prefix honorifics: ご住所, ご家族, ご連絡
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- ご自宅に届ける: to deliver to someone's home
- ご自宅にお伺いする: to visit someone's home (humble)
- ご自宅の電話番号: your home phone number
- ご自宅でのケア: home care (medical)
RELATED TERMS:
- 自宅: one's home (neutral/plain)
- お宅: your home (polite, also used for "your household")
- ご住所: your address (honorific)