アイスクリーム

アイスクリーム · aisukuriimu · JLPT N3 · noun

ice cream

🍦 Loanword: ice cream said the Japanese way, a-i-su ku-rī-mu

Straight from English ice cream. Japanese adds a vowel after the s, giving aisu, and stretches cream into kuriimu with a long ii. Aisu alone is also used to mean ice cream or ice pops.

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