アルコール

アルコール · arukooru · JLPT N4 · noun

alcohol

アルコール — alcohol

🍺🍷 a-ru-koo-ru = alcohol said in Japanese syllables, borrowed from Dutch

A loanword from Dutch alcohol, written in katakana. Japanese has no L, so each L becomes ru, and the long o is marked by the bar ー: a-ru-koo-ru. Say alcohol slowly with an R sound and you are nearly there.

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