In Japanese, "breakfast" is 朝食 (chōshoku). It is a noun pronounced "choh-shoh-koo".
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朝食 is written in kanji. Romanised as chōshoku, it sounds roughly like "choh-shoh-koo" to an English ear.
朝食を一つください。
Chōshoku wo hitotsu kudasai.
One breakfast, please.
Chōshoku (朝食) is the Japanese word for breakfast. 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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Buy on Steam朝食 is romanised as chōshoku. Say it roughly like "choh-shoh-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
朝食 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.
朝食 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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