In Japanese, "shopping list" is 買い物リスト (kaimonorisuto). It is a noun pronounced "kah-ee-moh-noh-ree-soo-toh".
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買い物リスト is written in kanji, hiragana and katakana. Romanised as kaimonorisuto, it sounds roughly like "kah-ee-moh-noh-ree-soo-toh" to an English ear.
机の上に買い物リストがあります。
Tsukue no ue ni Kaimonorisuto ga arimasu.
There is a shopping list on the desk.
Kaimonorisuto (買い物リスト) is the Japanese word for shopping list. This noun appears in everyday contexts across homes, offices, schools, and public spaces.
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Buy on Steam買い物リスト is romanised as kaimonorisuto. Say it roughly like "kah-ee-moh-noh-ree-soo-toh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
買い物リスト 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.
買い物リスト is written using kanji, hiragana and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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