ステーキ

ステーキ · suteeki · JLPT N4 · noun

steak

ステーキ — steak

🥩 English steak in katakana: su-TEE-ki, with a long ee

A loanword from English steak. Japanese cannot start a syllable with bare st, so a u slips in: su-te. The long mark ー stretches the e, and the final k gets an i, giving su-tee-ki.

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