お菓子|おかしokashi[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. nounconfections; sweets; candy; cake
   お菓子かしで赤あかちゃんが窒息ちっそくするところだった。↗

   The baby almost choked on a piece of candy.

• Synonym菓子かしNeutralLiterary equivalent of お菓子, lacking the polite prefix お-; used chiefly in writing and formal expression rather than casual conversation.

Use お菓子, with its polite prefix お-, as the everyday word for sweets, candy, and cake; reserve the unprefixed 菓子 for literary or formal written contexts.

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1. 菓子かしを丁寧ていねいに言いう語ご。