The other common way to say that you miss someone in Japanese is to flip things around and instead of talking about a forward-looking emotion (i.e. This is basically the same thing, but the emphasis is stronger than the first phrase since it emphasizes the past and an emotion that has been held for an extended duration.

It was when a girl reunited with her old friend in a manga and she ran over to them while yelling:

I’ve also seen this phrase used in a slightly different format before. If you’re talking to that special person you like, then this is the phrase to use. This comes from the word 会う (au) which means “to meet” someone, but when its changed into the tai-form like in the above example, it means “want to meet” or as we would say in English “want to see you” and then spend time together. That you desire to spend time together with them because you haven’t been able to for a while. When you think about it, that’s kind of what the English phrase means. The first way that you can say that you miss someone is to rephrase is slightly and instead say that you want to see them. 5) Now I Want To Hear From You I Miss You In Japanese

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