スケート

スケート · sukeeto · JLPT N3 · noun

skate

⛸️ Borrowed from English skate: s-k-t becomes su-kee-to

A loanword from English skate. Japanese puts a vowel after each consonant, so s and k turn into su and ke. The long ー adds the extra e in kee, and the final t becomes to.

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