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Why 本屋 ends with -さん (本屋さん)? Isn't 本屋 enough? What's the difference between
these two?
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The difference between 本屋さん and 本屋
In this case, the -さん is a polite suffix and could provide information about
your relationship to the 本屋. For example, you are a customer, an employee, or
are involved in business with it in some other way. Then you could use -さん to
refer to 本屋 in a polite conversation. Although I am not quite sure about
whether this is a requirement, or it is generally simply possible to add the
honorific without pragmatic change. Wikipedia refers to this use of the suffix
as "use with workplace nouns", therefore there probably is a connection.
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