In Japanese, "garlic" is にんにく (ninniku). It is a noun pronounced "nee-n-nee-koo".
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にんにく is written in hiragana. Romanised as ninniku, it sounds roughly like "nee-n-nee-koo" to an English ear.
にんにくを一つください。
Ninniku wo hitotsu kudasai.
One garlic, please.
Ninniku (にんにく) is the Japanese word for garlic. Food vocabulary is among the most practical for daily life in Japan and is used constantly in markets, restaurants, and home cooking.
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Buy on Steamにんにく is romanised as ninniku. Say it roughly like "nee-n-nee-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
にんにく 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.
にんにく is written using hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese syllabary used for native words and grammatical elements.
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