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What do you call Japanese plain form in Japanese?
All searches I ve done give examples of plain form, without actually saying what you d call it. What is the Japanese term used to describe conversational speech style?
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- ?Lv 55 years agoFavorite Answer
This form of speech is called タメ口（ためぐち）, sometimes also タメ語（ためご）.
'Colloquial language' has its own word, which is 俗語（ぞくご） :)
Source(s): I speak Japanese https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%A1%E... - 5 years ago
Ive heard it being called "colloquial" or "informal" or "direct" styles :)
And in Japanese I suppose you could just say ふつう(futsuu) which means ordinary... but not too sure.
