Confirm if someone wants to do something

Question

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.

Answer 1

A good resource for software localization is Microsoft’s Localization Style Guides, 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?”