Definify.com

Definition 2024


呼び捨て

呼び捨て

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6

Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Noun

呼び捨て (hiragana よびすて, romaji yobisute)

  1. calling someone by their family or given name only, without an appropriate suffix such as さん

See also

Other terms for informal or disrespectful form of address.

  • English: thou (to refer to someone by the archaically informal thou, not the archaically formal you)
  • Finnish: sinutella (to refer to someone by the informal sinä, not the formal te)
  • French: tutoyer (to refer to someone by the informal tu, not the formal vous)
  • German: duzen (to refer to someone by the informal du, not the formal Sie)
  • Icelandic: þúa (to refer to someone by the informal þú, not the dated formal þér)
  • Spanish: tutear (to refer to someone by the informal , not the formal usted)
  • Swedish: dua (to refer to someone by the once informal du, not the out-of-use formal ni)