お邪魔します。
Ojamashimasu.
Excuse me for coming in.
- Word for word
- “I will be in the way.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Stepping into someone’s home.
- Worth knowing
- Said as you enter. Take shoes off at the genkan and line them up facing out.