ゲーム

ゲーム · geemu · JLPT N3 · noun

game

🎮 Loanword from English game, with the long ee written as ゲー: gee-mu

Katakana marks words borrowed from other languages. The bar ー stretches the vowel, so ge becomes gee, and Japanese adds a final u after the m because it cannot end on a bare m sound.

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