グループ

グループ · guruupu · JLPT N3 · noun

group

👥 English group in katakana: gu-ruu-pu, with the r and the long u kept

Japanese has no consonant clusters, so gr becomes gu-ru, and a final p gets a u added: gu-ruu-pu. Once you know that rule, many English loanwords become easy to recognise.

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