In Japanese, "strawberry" is いちご (ichigo). It is a noun.
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いちご is written in hiragana. Romanised as ichigo, it sounds roughly like "ee-chee-goh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamいちご is romanised as ichigo. Say it roughly like "ee-chee-goh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
いちご 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.
いちご is written using hiragana. Hiragana is the basic Japanese syllabary used for native words and grammatical elements.
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