よびすて

Japanese

Alternative spellings
呼び捨て
呼捨て

Etymology

From よぶ (yobu, “to call”) + すてる (suteru, “to discard”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) よびすて [yòbísúté] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [jo̞bʲisɨte̞]

Noun

よびすて • (yobisute) 

  1. calling someone by their family or given name only, without honorific suffixes such as さん (san)

See also

  • 名前呼(なまえよ)び (namaeyobi)
  • English: thou (“to address (a person) using the pronoun thou”, verb)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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