サンダル

サンダル · sandaru · JLPT N4 · noun

sandal

🩴 sandaru = English sandal, with an extra u and r for l

A loanword straight from English. Japanese has no l sound and syllables rarely end in a consonant, so sandal becomes sa-n-da-ru. Katakana spelling is the giveaway that it is borrowed.

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