What verb, pronoun, and noun forms do native Japanese speakers think in?

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1. Japanese usually works better without pronouns. Rather, it works perfectly fine with them, but they are almost always assumed, instead of used in coloquial speech, or thought (from what I’ve been told). Most people tend to lead an informal monologue. That’s as true of Japanese as it is with any other language.

2. As with all things, it depends on the context and the personality of the individual.

3. When you hear Japanese native speakers “talk to themselves” (ie mutter) it’s almost entirely *without* pronouns. That’s just how Japanese works when you *know* the subjects.

   It also varies depending on the person and context of course, but from a conjugation formality standpoint it’s primarily root/informal form.