In Japanese, "What do you like?" is 何が好きですか？ (nani ga suki desu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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何が好きですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as nani ga suki desu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "nah-nee gah soo-kee deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam何が好きですか？ is romanised as nani ga suki desu ka ？. Say it roughly like "nah-nee gah soo-kee deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
何が好きですか？ 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.
何が好きですか？ 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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