what is a tte in japanese?
One of the very first phrases students of the language learn is お名前は？ (O-namae wa?, “[What's] your name?”) This is not a complete sentence grammatically. ... This is also true of the casual quotative particle って (tte). Tte is used to tag quoted speech, and it's easy to leave off the verb 言う (iu, say) when it's unnecessary.