In Japanese, "sports pitch" is 運動場 (undōjyō). It is a noun pronounced "oo-n-doh-jyoh".
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運動場 is written in kanji. Romanised as undōjyō, it sounds roughly like "oo-n-doh-jyoh" to an English ear.
運動場の横に立ちました。
Undōjyō no yoko ni tachimashita.
I stood next to the sports pitch.
Undōjyō (運動場) means sports pitch in Japanese. This noun describes a feature or object found in indoor or outdoor environments.
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運動場 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.
運動場 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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