In Japanese, "button" is ボタン (botan). It is a noun pronounced "boh-tah-n".
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ボタン is written in katakana. Romanised as botan, it sounds roughly like "boh-tah-n" to an English ear.
今日は新しいボタンを着ています。
Kyou wa atarashii Botan wo kite imasu.
I am wearing a new button today.
Botan (ボタン) means button in Japanese. Clothing vocabulary is useful for shopping, describing outfits, and understanding fashion-related conversations.
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Buy on Steamボタン is romanised as botan. Say it roughly like "boh-tah-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
ボタン 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.
ボタン is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
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