In Japanese, "turtle" is カメ (kame). It is a noun pronounced "kah-meh".
カメ is written in katakana. Romanised as kame, it sounds roughly like "kah-meh" to an English ear.
カメは長生きです。
Kame wa nagaiki desu.
Turtles live long.
Reptile with hard shell. Symbol of longevity.
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Learn through play. Get Noun Town on Steam.カメ is romanised as kame. Say it roughly like "kah-meh" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
カメ 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.
カメ is written using katakana. Katakana is typically used for words of foreign origin or to give emphasis.
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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