ケーキ

ケーキ · keeki · JLPT N4 · noun

cake

ケーキ — cake

🍰 keeki = English cake with a stretched e and an extra i on the end

A loanword from English cake. Japanese syllables cannot end in k, so a vowel is added: ke-e-ki. The long ー mark stretches the e, echoing the long a sound in cake. Say cake slowly, add ee at the end, and you have it.

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