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呼び捨て (よびすて, yobisute) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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It's rude to address a senior colleague without an honorific.
He doesn't even drop the honorific with close friends.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 を 呼よ び 捨す てで 呼よ ぶ to call someone by their bare name, without any honorific suffix
Senpai often call their juniors by their bare name without a suffix.
呼よ び 捨す てで 呼よ び 合あ う to call each other by bare names (as a sign of closeness)
We're close, so we call each other by our bare names.
呼よ び 捨す てを 許ゆる す to allow someone to address you without an honorific suffix
He only allows his close friends to call him without a suffix.
Expressions 呼よ び 捨す てにする address without honorific suffix; call by name only Kanji 呼 call, call out to, invite 捨 discard, throw away, abandon Opposites 呼び捝て drops the honorific suffix entirely, while さん付け means always adding さん when addressing someone.
呼び捝て means omitting an honorific title, whereas 敬称 refers to the honorific title (さん, 様, etc.) itself that is being omitted.
Written forms 呼よ び 捨す て Usage 89%
呼よ びすて Usage 9%
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よびすて Usage 2%
呼よび 捨す て Usage 1%
Etymology Compound of 呼び (the continuative form of 呼ぶ, 'to call') and 捨て (the continuative form of 捨てる, 'to throw away'), literally 'throwing away the calling [suffix]'.
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