スター

スター · sutaa · JLPT N3 · noun

star

⭐ スター is just the English word star said in Japanese sounds: su-taa

A loanword written in katakana, the script Japanese uses for foreign words. Japanese adds a u after the s and stretches the a, so star becomes su-taa. The long ー mark means hold the vowel. It covers celebrities too, as in English.

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