In Japanese, "banana" is バナナ (banana). It is a noun pronounced "bah-nah-nah".
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バナナ is written in katakana. Romanised as banana, it sounds roughly like "bah-nah-nah" to an English ear.
朝ごはんにバナナを食べました。
Asagohan ni Banana wo tabemashita.
I had banana for breakfast.
Banana (バナナ) is the Japanese word for banana. Food vocabulary is among the most practical for daily life in Japan and is used constantly in markets, restaurants, and home cooking.
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バナナ 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.
バナナ is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
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