ケース

ケース · keesu · JLPT N3 · noun

case

💼 Loanword from English case: kee-su is case said with a Japanese final vowel

Japanese borrowed the English word case. The long ee and the added su ending turn case into ke-e-su. Like the English word, it means both a container (a phone case) and an instance (a special case).

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