In Japanese, "drink" is 飲み物 (nomimono). It is a noun.
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飲み物 is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as nomimono, it sounds roughly like "noh-mee-moh-noh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam飲み物 is romanised as nomimono. Say it roughly like "noh-mee-moh-noh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
飲み物 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.
飲み物 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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