In Japanese, "fire extinguisher" is 消火器 (shōkaki). It is a noun.
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消火器 is written in kanji. Romanised as shōkaki, it sounds roughly like "shoh-kah-kee" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam消火器 is romanised as shōkaki. Say it roughly like "shoh-kah-kee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
消火器 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.
消火器 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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