How to say "lingerie" in Japanese

• ランジェリーCommon
  nounCovers lingerie in its stylish, dressy sense — attractive women's underclothing; the word you meet in shops and fashion contexts when the alluring sense is meant.
• 肌着はだぎJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounUnderclothes worn next to the skin; it can render lingerie in the plain sense of garments worn under outer clothes, but for the dressy sense ランジェリー is the closer match.
  彼かれは肌着はだぎを裏返うらがえしに着きた。↗

  He put on his undershirt inside out.
• 下着したぎJLPT N4approx.Common
  nounThe general word for underwear of any kind; its lingerie sense is simply undergarments as a category, so when you mean stylish lingerie, ランジェリー is the word to reach for.
  私は新あたらしい下着したぎが気きに入はいっている。↗

  I'm pleased with my new underwear.

Choose 「ランジェリー」 for lingerie as stylish, dressy underclothing, 肌着 for underclothes worn next to the skin, and 下着 for underwear in general, whose lingerie sense is the broad undergarment category.

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• ランジェリーlingerie
• 肌着はだぎunderwear
• 下着したぎunderwear