How to say "vegetable" in Japanese

• 野菜やさいJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounThe ordinary word for vegetable, covering vegetables as food or plants in daily life, cooking, and shopping. Use this in virtually any sentence about eating or buying vegetables.
  その店みせは野菜やさいを売うっている。↗

  The store deals in vegetables.
• ベジタブルCommon
  nounThe loanword, matching 'vegetable' in gloss but mostly seen on menus, drink and product names, or in casual stylish speech. For ordinary reference to vegetables, 野菜 is the word you want.

Use 野菜 for vegetables in the everyday sense of edible plants; 「ベジタブル」 is the loanword, used in menus, product names, and casual or fashionable contexts.

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• 野菜やさいvegetable
• ベジタブルvegetable
• ベジvegetable
• 植物性しょくぶつせいbotanical