In Japanese, "shower" is シャワーを浴びる (shawā o abiru). It is a verb.
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シャワーを浴びる is written in kanji, hiragana and katakana. Romanised as shawā o abiru, it sounds roughly like "shah-wah oh ah-bee-roo" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamシャワーを浴びる is romanised as shawā o abiru. Say it roughly like "shah-wah oh ah-bee-roo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
シャワーを浴びる is the plain (dictionary) form, used in casual speech and in dictionaries. For polite situations, verbs take a different ending, typically -masu. In Noun Town the game always shows the dictionary form.
シャワーを浴びる is written using kanji, hiragana and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
This word is part of the vocabulary taught in the Japanese language learning game Noun Town, where words are introduced through play rather than memorisation.
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