In Japanese, "lemon" is レモン (remon). It is a noun pronounced "reh-moh-n".
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レモン is written in katakana. Romanised as remon, it sounds roughly like "reh-moh-n" to an English ear.
レモンを一つください。
Remon wo hitotsu kudasai.
One lemon, please.
Remon (レモン) is the Japanese word for lemon. 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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レモン 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.
レモン is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
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