In Japanese, "plastic bag" is ビニール袋 (binīrubukuro). It is a noun.
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ビニール袋 is written in kanji and katakana. Romanised as binīrubukuro, it sounds roughly like "bee-n-ee-roo-boo-koo-roh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamビニール袋 is romanised as binīrubukuro. Say it roughly like "bee-n-ee-roo-boo-koo-roh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
ビニール袋 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.
ビニール袋 is written using kanji and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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