Confirm if someone wants to do something


In English, you have some types of question formats such as:

  * Do you want to reserve a meeting room?
  * Is it correct that you want to ask about an employee?
  * Is it correct that you are sad?

With these types of formats, you can easily create questions such as:

  * Do you + {desire}
  * Is it correct that you {desire}

I have an application which need to automatically make those questions depends
on the user's intents, but in Japanese. I want to know if there is any similar
format such as those above. Assume if the user wants to reserve a meeting
room, I can do something like 'Do you' + 'want to reserve a meeting room' in
Japanese.

Thank you for your help.




A good resource for software localization is Microsoft’s [Localization Style
Guides](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/StyleGuides), available for
Japanese as well.

Specifically for confirmations, it seems to recommend the form `〜しますか? `

E.g.

> Do you want to save changes?
>
> 変更を保存しますか?

In some programs I’ve also seen a pattern `〜よろしいですか？`, especially before
potentially destructive operations like exiting without saving changes, so it
has a subtext of “are you really sure you want to proceed?”

