In Japanese, "What can you do?" is 何ができますか？ (nani ga dekimasu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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何ができますか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as nani ga dekimasu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "nah-nee gah deh-kee-mah-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam何ができますか？ is romanised as nani ga dekimasu ka ？. Say it roughly like "nah-nee gah deh-kee-mah-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
何ができますか？ 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.
何ができますか？ is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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