In Japanese, "leather bag" is 革かばん (kawakaban). It is a noun pronounced "kah-wah-kah-bah-n".
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革かばん is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as kawakaban, it sounds roughly like "kah-wah-kah-bah-n" to an English ear.
その革かばんはとても便利です。
Sono Kawakaban wa totemo benri desu.
That leather bag is very useful.
Kawakaban (革かばん) is the Japanese word for leather bag. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam革かばん is romanised as kawakaban. Say it roughly like "kah-wah-kah-bah-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
革かばん 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.
革かばん 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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