ギター

ギター · gitaa · JLPT N5 · noun

guitar

ギター — guitar

🎸 gitaa = English guitar, borrowed whole; the long final a stands in for -ar

A katakana loanword from English. Japanese has no final r sound, so the -ar ending becomes a stretched a, written with the long-vowel bar ー. Say guitar with a dropped r and you already have it: gi-taa.

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