ましょうか
Shall I...?/Shall we...?
About
～ましょうか is a fairly polite way to make an invitation or suggestion. Compared to ～ませんか, ～ましょうか sounds like the speaker has more confidence in the other person agreeing to their invitation.
Form ましょう by conjugating the 「ます」at the end of a ます form verb and adding か.
E.g. 食べる → 食べます → 食べましょうか
Compared to ～ましょう, the addition of か makes ～ましょうか sound a bit more unassuming.
Use ～ましょうか to politely suggest that someone should do something, or to invite someone to do something
Invitations made using ～ましょうか have more confidence in the other person saying yes than those made using ～ませんか
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