In Japanese, "Who is your best friend?" is 親友は誰ですか？ (shinyū wa dare desu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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親友は誰ですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as shinyū wa dare desu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "shee-n-yoo wah dah-reh deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam親友は誰ですか？ is romanised as shinyū wa dare desu ka ？. Say it roughly like "shee-n-yoo wah dah-reh deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
親友は誰ですか？ 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.
親友は誰ですか？ 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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