In Japanese, "school" is 学校 (gakkō). It is a noun pronounced "gah-kkoh".
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学校 is written in kanji. Romanised as gakkō, it sounds roughly like "gah-kkoh" to an English ear.
学校は駅から歩いて五分です。
Gakkou wa eki kara aruita go-fun desu.
The school is five minutes walk from the station.
Gakkou (学校) means school. Japan's school year begins in April when cherry blossoms bloom. Schools are central to community life and known for rigorous academic standards.
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Buy on Steam学校 is romanised as gakkō. Say it roughly like "gah-kkoh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
学校 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.
学校 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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