オートメーション

オートメーション · ootomeeshon · JLPT N2 · noun

automation

🤖⚙️ Katakana for automation: ooto-mee-shon is how Japanese sounds out the English word

A loanword from English automation, spelled out in katakana. The long vowels (oo, ee) stand in for the English au and a sounds, and the final -tion becomes shon, the same ending you see in ステーション (station) and アクション (action).

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