In Japanese, "seasoning" is 調味料 (chōmiryō). It is a noun.
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調味料 is written in kanji. Romanised as chōmiryō, it sounds roughly like "choh-mee-ryoh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam調味料 is romanised as chōmiryō. Say it roughly like "choh-mee-ryoh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
調味料 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.
調味料 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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