In Japanese, "tall" is 背の高い (Sen no takai). It is a adjective pronounced "seh-n noh tah-kah-ee".
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背の高い is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as Sen no takai, it sounds roughly like "seh-n noh tah-kah-ee" to an English ear.
彼はとても背が高いです。
Kare wa totemo se ga takai desu.
He is very tall.
Se no takai (背の高い) literally means 'one whose back is tall', the standard way to describe a tall person in Japanese. For objects like buildings, takai (tall/high) is used directly without se no.
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Buy on Steam背の高い is romanised as Sen no takai. Say it roughly like "seh-n noh tah-kah-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
背の高い is an i-adjective. The form shown is the plain form, which works in casual speech. To make it polite, add desu at the end of the sentence. The word itself does not change.
背の高い is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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