In Japanese, "trash can" is ゴミ箱 (gomibako). It is a noun.
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ゴミ箱 is written in kanji and katakana. Romanised as gomibako, it sounds roughly like "goh-mee-bah-koh" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steamゴミ箱 is romanised as gomibako. Say it roughly like "goh-mee-bah-koh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
ゴミ箱 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
ゴミ箱 is written using kanji and katakana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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