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What are some Japanese contractions?

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-26 0:22 ID:MCzpfGvT

What are some Japanese contractions? I'm talking about the less mainstream ones, not like desu = de gozaimasu, or da = dearu

I mean stuff like this
なくちゃ=なきゃ
です=っす
~ています/etc=~てます/etc
~ておきます/etc=~ときます/etc
~てしまいます/etc=~ちゃいます/etc
~でしまいます/etc=~じゃいます/etc

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-26 1:09 ID:Heaven

There's a lot...  Also,「~なくちゃ」is already a contraction of 「~なくては」, 「~なきゃ」means 「~なければ」.
Here's some other stuff off the top of my head...
~ければ=けりゃ
~てあげる=たげる
~っただろう=ったろう
~するの=すんの
(人)の(もの)=(人)ん(もの)
これは=こりゃ
~だもの=だもん
~している=してん
~するな=すんな
~しなさい=しな
Depends a lot on dialect too... kinda hard to list, that's like trying to list every contraction in English (including shit like "gonna").

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-26 2:21 ID:y/ImuUji

>>2
As a lasy, yet fluent Japanese speaker, I add that this is a very good list, but I will contribute nothing to it.

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-26 3:49 ID:NAJuONU2

>>3
You may be fluent in Japanese, but your English needs work.

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-28 3:11 ID:3skBYIwe

>>4
As I said, I am very lazy, and didn't even want to backspace to correct my misspelling.

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-28 7:57 ID:DODTOFW/

Thanks! This is very useful.

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-28 14:32 ID:DODTOFW/

Also, MOAR please! :3

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