スカート

スカート · sukaato · JLPT N5 · noun

skirt

👗 su-kaa-to = English skirt, reshaped to fit Japanese syllables

A loanword from English skirt, written in katakana. Japanese adds a vowel after s (su), stretches the ir sound into a long aa (ー), and adds o after the final t: s-kirt becomes su-kaa-to.

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