#please don't take this too seriously i haven't been studying japanese very long and am no expert

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In Japanese, if you want to refer to your boyfriend, you can say 彼氏 (kareshi) meaning something like "Mr. Guy" or "male person of importance." If you want to refer to your girlfriend, you just say 彼女 (kanojo), which just means "she" or, more literally, "that female person." Not "my woman" or "special woman." Literally the same word you'd use if you were to say, "She went to the store."

Alternatively, you can use 恋人 (koibito) for either, which means something like "person I am romantically in love with," but I think this is mostly used just for guys.

Or you can just be lazy and say "boi furendo" (boyfriend) and "gaaru furendo" (girlfriend), and wonder why you're bothering to put any effort into studying Japanese at all.

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