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For example if I wanted to say "I called bob", would it be something like "私は
Bob の電話を呼びました"?

That sentence feels a little awkward and I'm not sure how to properly phrase
it.
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How do I say that I called someone?
A way I learned to say this is ボブに電話をかけました。

The に indicates a "destination" in the same way ～に聞きました means asking ~ a
question.

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「電{でん}話{わ}をかけた」is one option, and「電話（を）した」is another. There's also「電話を入{い}れた」,
which tends to be used in more 'functional' contexts, like if the call was
made to inform/notify the other party about something or in order to confirm
something. You would use each of these after starting with「ボブに」in the given
example. To convert these to somewhat more polite versions, you can replace
the final「～た」 with「～ました」.
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