オフィス

オフィス · ofuィsu · JLPT N3 · noun

office

オフィス — office

🏢💼 Borrowed from English office: o-fi-su, with a final su added

Japanese took this word straight from English. Japanese words can't end in a bare s, so a su sound gets added at the end: o-fi-su. The fi sound is written フィ, a small ィ after フ.

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