In Japanese, "table tennis table" is 卓球台 (takkyūdai). It is a noun.
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卓球台 is written in kanji. Romanised as takkyūdai, it sounds roughly like "tah-kkyoo-dah-ee" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam卓球台 is romanised as takkyūdai. Say it roughly like "tah-kkyoo-dah-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
卓球台 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.
卓球台 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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