In Japanese, "food store" is 食料品店 (shokuryōhinten). It is a noun pronounced "shoh-koo-ryoh-hee-n-teh-n".
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食料品店 is written in kanji. Romanised as shokuryōhinten, it sounds roughly like "shoh-koo-ryoh-hee-n-teh-n" to an English ear.
食料品店で野菜と果物を買います。
Shokuryouhinten de yasai to kudamono wo kaimasu.
I buy vegetables and fruit at the food store.
Shokuryouhinten (食料品店) means grocery store or food shop. Japan has a wide range of food stores, from specialist greengrocers to large supermarket chains.
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食料品店 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.
食料品店 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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