In Japanese, "oil" is 油 (abura). It is a noun pronounced "ah-boo-rah".
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油 is written in kanji. Romanised as abura, it sounds roughly like "ah-boo-rah" to an English ear.
冷蔵庫に油が入っています。
Reizoko ni Abura ga haitte imasu.
There is oil in the fridge.
Abura (油) is the Japanese word for oil. 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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油 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.
油 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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