アクセント

アクセント · akusento · JLPT N2 · noun

accent

🗣️ Borrowed from English accent: a-ku-sen-to, with Japanese vowels added

Japanese breaks the English word into its own syllables, adding u after k and o after t. In Japanese, アクセント also means pitch accent, the rise and fall that tells words like 箸 and 橋 apart.

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