In Japanese, "bottle opener" is 栓抜き (sennuki). It is a noun pronounced "seh-n-noo-kee".
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栓抜き is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as sennuki, it sounds roughly like "seh-n-noo-kee" to an English ear.
栓抜きを使います。
Sennuki wo tsukaimasu.
I use the bottle opener.
Sennuki (栓抜き) is the Japanese word for bottle opener. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam栓抜き is romanised as sennuki. Say it roughly like "seh-n-noo-kee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
栓抜き 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.
栓抜き is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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