interjection · Colloquial · FAI-toh
Go on, you can do it. Shouted at someone about to take an exam, run a race or go into a difficult meeting — encouragement, never an instruction to fight.
Japan
3 Japanese slang terms for greetings & address, each with its meaning, how it is pronounced and an example of it in use.
How people open a conversation and what they call each other. These terms carry the most social information of any slang category: one wrong choice marks you as an outsider, or worse, as rude.
interjection · Colloquial · FAI-toh
Go on, you can do it. Shouted at someone about to take an exam, run a race or go into a difficult meeting — encouragement, never an instruction to fight.
interjection · Informal · OS-su
Yo. A brusque male greeting, standard in martial-arts clubs and sports teams and used casually between male friends.
interjection, phrase · Colloquial · oh-tsu-KA-reh
The all-purpose workplace greeting: hello, goodbye, well done, thanks for your effort. Said on arrival, on leaving, in corridors and at the end of anything.
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The same subject in the other countries on this site — the quickest way to see how differently four languages say one thing.