大丈夫です。
Daijōbu desu.
It’s fine / I’m OK / no thanks.
- Word for word
- “It’s all right.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Reassuring someone, or turning down an offer.
- Worth knowing
- Ambiguous by design. If someone offers help and you say 大丈夫です, you decline.