In Japanese, "wake up" is 起こす (okosu). It is a verb.
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起こす is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as okosu, it sounds roughly like "oh-koh-soo" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam起こす is romanised as okosu. Say it roughly like "oh-koh-soo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
起こす 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.
起こす 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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