エレベーター

エレベーター · erebeetaa · JLPT N5 · noun

elevator

🛗 English loanword: e-re-bee-taa = elevator said in Japanese sounds

Japanese has no L or V, so elevator becomes e-re-be-e-ta-a: L turns into R, V turns into B. The long dashes ー stretch the vowels where English has the stressed -va- and the final -tor.

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