カレー

カレー · karee · JLPT N5 · noun

curry

🍛 karee = English curry in katakana; the long ee stands in for the -y

A loanword from English curry, so it is written in katakana. Japanese has no separate r/l and stretches the final vowel: cu-rry becomes ka-ree. On menus it usually means curry served over rice, short for カレーライス (karee raisu).

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