In Japanese, "ambulance" is 救急車 (kyūkyūsha). It is a noun.
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救急車 is written in kanji. Romanised as kyūkyūsha, it sounds roughly like "kyoo-kyoo-shah" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam救急車 is romanised as kyūkyūsha. Say it roughly like "kyoo-kyoo-shah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
救急車 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
救急車 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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