In Japanese, "stop" is 止める (tomeru). It is a verb pronounced "toh-meh-roo".
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止める is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as tomeru, it sounds roughly like "toh-meh-roo" to an English ear.
私は毎日止めます。
Watashi wa mainichi tomemasu.
I to stop every day.
止める means to stop in Japanese. This is an everyday verb that learners encounter early. Mastering its masu form (止めます) and te-form opens up many sentence patterns.
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Buy on Steam止める is romanised as tomeru. Say it roughly like "toh-meh-roo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
止める 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.
止める is written using kanji and hiragana. 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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