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Who do you say mother in Japanese?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

母 /ha ha/ when referring to/mentioning your own mother.

お母さん /o kaa san/ when referring to someone else's mother (out of respect the honorifics 'o' in the beginning and 'san' at the end added) or talking to/calling your own mother. Other variants of 'okaasan' are 母さん /kaa san/ , お母ちゃん /o kaa chan/ and 母ちゃん /kaa chan/ in order from more polite to more casual.

お袋 /o fu ku ro/ is a very informal way of calling your mom and is used in certain families of usually common or lower social status.

母親 /ha ha o ya/ also means mother, but mostly used in the general concept of 'mother', like in e.g. "a mother's love is a gift".

母 can also be read /ka ka/ spoken by babies to call 'mom/mommy'.

There are other words like ママ /ma ma/ taken from English and other languages but are not that common.

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14y ago

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