でございまして in this sentence?


> それが困ったことに、次はスープでございまして。

Now that I think of it, I had jotted down another sentence that looks like the
same :

> 海外では魔女はとても人気のあるカテゴリーでしてね

Why are ございます and です conjugated that way ?




Japanese is a rare language in that it is often the listener/reader (instead
of the speaker/writer as in English) who must finish the sentence and
understand exactly what the speaker/writer would have wanted to say. Not
saying everything is a virtue in the Japanese culture whereas saying
everything as clearly as possible is a virtue in many others.

For that reason, you will keep encountering "sentences" ending with
conjunctions and verbs/adjectives in the te-forms for as long as you study
Japanese. We call those 「言{い}いさし表現{ひょうげん}」. 「さす」 is 「止す」 in kanji, but you do
not have to know that as it is rarely written in kanji. 「さす」 means "to stop
(in the middle)", so 「食べさしのハンバーガー」 means a "half-eaten hamburger". The
sentence version of that burger is the 言いさし表現, one might say. おもろいこと言うな、ワシも・・

BTW, I have no idea what to call 言いさし表現 in English mainly because it is not a
term needed in the English-speaking culture.

Thus, every time one uses an 言いさし表現, one is leaving something unsaid. You as
the listener/reader, however, will usually have no problem understanding from
the context or situation/occasion what was left unsaid by the other person.
Context is of utmost importance in Japanese. **What might confuse the
beginning Japanese-learners the most, however, is the fact that what is left
unsaid would almost always be the main clause**.

So, what kinds of things are most often left unsaid in 言いさし表現? Those would
generally be **explanations of matters, exclamations, apologies, gratitude and
criticism**.

Finally, though I wish to tell you what is left unsaid in your example
sentences, I could not do so for the complete lack of context.

> 「それが困{こま}ったことに、次{つぎ}はスープでございまして。」
>
> = "Unfortunately, the next course is the soup..."

I have no idea in what situation someone might say this. It sounds like the
speaker is being apologetic, but that would be all I could say.

Context is everything in 言いさし表現.

Next,

> 「海外{かいがい}では魔女{まじょ}はとても人気{にんき}のあるカテゴリーでしてね」
>
> = "Witches are a very popular category abroad..."

Again, without context, I have no idea what type of phrase would follow here.
All I could guess would be some kind of explanation.




Japanese is a rare language in that it is often the listener/reader (instead
of the speaker/writer as in English) who must finish the sentence and
understand exactly what the speaker/writer would have wanted to say. Not
saying everything is a virtue in the Japanese culture whereas saying
everything as clearly as possible is a virtue in many others.

For that reason, you will keep encountering "sentences" ending with
conjunctions and verbs/adjectives in the te-forms for as long as you study
Japanese. We call those 「言{い}いさし表現{ひょうげん}」. 「さす」 is 「止す」 in kanji, but you do
not have to know that as it is rarely written in kanji. 「さす」 means "to stop
(in the middle)", so 「食べさしのハンバーガー」 means a "half-eaten hamburger". The
sentence version of that burger is the 言いさし表現, one might say. おもろいこと言うな、ワシも・・

BTW, I have no idea what to call 言いさし表現 in English mainly because it is not a
term needed in the English-speaking culture.

Thus, every time one uses an 言いさし表現, one is leaving something unsaid. You as
the listener/reader, however, will usually have no problem understanding from
the context or situation/occasion what was left unsaid by the other person.
Context is of utmost importance in Japanese. **What might confuse the
beginning Japanese-learners the most, however, is the fact that what is left
unsaid would almost always be the main clause**.

So, what kinds of things are most often left unsaid in 言いさし表現? Those would
generally be **explanations of matters, exclamations, apologies, gratitude and
criticism**.

Finally, though I wish to tell you what is left unsaid in your example
sentences, I could not do so for the complete lack of context.

> 「それが困{こま}ったことに、次{つぎ}はスープでございまして。」
>
> = "Unfortunately, the next course is the soup..."

I have no idea in what situation someone might say this. It sounds like the
speaker is being apologetic, but that would be all I could say.

Context is everything in 言いさし表現.

Next,

> 「海外{かいがい}では魔女{まじょ}はとても人気{にんき}のあるカテゴリーでしてね」
>
> = "Witches are a very popular category abroad..."

Again, without context, I have no idea what type of phrase would follow here.
All I could guess would be some kind of explanation.

