In Japanese, "change" is お釣り (otsuri). It is a noun.
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お釣り is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as otsuri, it sounds roughly like "oh-tsoo-ree" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamお釣り is romanised as otsuri. Say it roughly like "oh-tsoo-ree" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
お釣り 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.
お釣り 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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