In Japanese, "bakery" is パン屋 (panya). It is a noun.
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パン屋 is written in kanji and katakana. Romanised as panya, it sounds roughly like "pah-nyah" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamパン屋 is romanised as panya. Say it roughly like "pah-nyah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
パン屋 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.
パン屋 is written using kanji and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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