In Japanese, "onion" is 玉ねぎ (tamanegi). It is a noun pronounced "tah-mah-neh-gee".
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玉ねぎ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as tamanegi, it sounds roughly like "tah-mah-neh-gee" to an English ear.
玉ねぎが好きです。毎日食べます。
Tamanegi ga suki desu. Mainichi tabemasu.
I love onion. I eat it every day.
Tamanegi (玉ねぎ) is the Japanese word for onion. 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玉ねぎ is romanised as tamanegi. Say it roughly like "tah-mah-neh-gee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
玉ねぎ 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.
玉ねぎ 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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