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What do you use katakana for?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Hiragana is used for original Japanese words

katakana is used for words that are not Japanese based

so words like pen, basu, kurasu, geemu, sarada. ( pen, bus, class, game, salad)

that sound like English use katakana

also names that arent Japanese based have to be spelled in katakana

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