コーヒー

コーヒー · koohii · JLPT N5 · noun

coffee

☕ koohii = coffee said the Japanese way: ko-o-hi-i, both vowels held long

A loanword from Dutch koffie, written in katakana because it is foreign. Japanese has no f+ee sound here, so fi became hi, and the long marks ー stretch each vowel: koo-hii. Say coffee slowly with an h and you have it.

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