In Japanese, "pizza" is ピザ (piza). It is a noun pronounced "pee-zah".
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ピザ is written in katakana. Romanised as piza, it sounds roughly like "pee-zah" to an English ear.
このお店のピザはとてもおいしいです。
Kono omise no Piza wa totemo oishii desu.
The pizza at this shop is very delicious.
Piza (ピザ) is the Japanese word for pizza. 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ピザ is romanised as piza. Say it roughly like "pee-zah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
ピザ 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.
ピザ is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
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