お疲れ様です。
Otsukaresama desu.
Thanks for your hard work.
- Word for word
- “You must be tired.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- Greeting colleagues during the working day, in person or by email.
- Worth knowing
- Between peers you can say お疲れ。 Do not say it to a customer; to a boss, prefer お疲れ様です over plain お疲れ.