In Japanese, "muffin" is マフィン (mafin). It is a noun pronounced "mah-fee-n".
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マフィン is written in katakana. Romanised as mafin, it sounds roughly like "mah-fee-n" to an English ear.
朝ごはんにマフィンを食べました。
Asagohan ni Mafin wo tabemashita.
I had muffin for breakfast.
Mafin (マフィン) is the Japanese word for muffin. 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マフィン is romanised as mafin. Say it roughly like "mah-fee-n" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
マフィン 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.
マフィン is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
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