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I've tried searching for the answer in a lot of place. But all I get is formal answers (like 彼女はいつ来ますか). I'm assuming that the informal style will be 彼女はいつ来てるのか。 because the verb come turned into coming and is acting like a noun so, I added a の　at the end of it. Is it correct? Google translate doesn't do a good job with informal styles. So can anybody say how a native Japanese a boy would say this to his high school friend? This will give me ideas to apply this to a lot of other places. Thank you so much in advance.

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    Can you explain more what your reason for making it 来てる and adding の was? If you just want to change the register, why did you also change the grammar?
    – Leebo
    Feb 13, 2021 at 11:34
  • I can't explain to you any better. Sorry! I'm a begginer. I don't understand the grammar stuff very well. Thank you for your response.
    – user41908
    Feb 13, 2021 at 13:32
  • Related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/34350/…
    – Mindful
    Feb 14, 2021 at 4:08

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The informal version of "彼女はいつ来ますか？" is "彼女はいつ来るの？"

  • "のか？" is a literary style, and it almost never happens in ordinary conversations in the real world.
  • BE + -ING (eg "She is coming tomorrow") is an English way of expressing future tense. Japanese ている doesn't have such a function.

See: https://www.wasabi-jpn.com/japanese-grammar/question-markers/

(By the way, if you want to make it really natural, don't use 彼女. An average Japanese boy doesn't use it more than once a month.)

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I'd say 彼女はいつ来るの? Just adding の right after the base form of verb works. This rule can be applied to other verbs like 戻る, 帰る, and so on.

However, Japanese don't use 彼女, 彼 or 私たち so often. I actually pictured myself speaking and figured out that it would be more natural if we omit subjectives or specify persons' names. e.g. いつ来るの?, Mary はいつ来るの?

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