In Japanese, "work" is 働く (hataraku). It is a verb.
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働く is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as hataraku, it sounds roughly like "hah-tah-rah-koo" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam働く is romanised as hataraku. Say it roughly like "hah-tah-rah-koo" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
働く 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.
働く 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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