In Japanese, "carrot" is にんじん (ninjin). It is a noun.
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にんじん is written in hiragana. Romanised as ninjin, it sounds roughly like "nee-n-jee-n" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamにんじん is romanised as ninjin. Say it roughly like "nee-n-jee-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
にんじん 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.
にんじん is written using hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese syllabary used for native words and grammatical elements.
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