In Japanese, "stationery" is 文房具 (bunbōgu). It is a noun.
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文房具 is written in kanji. Romanised as bunbōgu, it sounds roughly like "boo-n-boh-goo" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam文房具 is romanised as bunbōgu. Say it roughly like "boo-n-boh-goo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
文房具 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.
文房具 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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