スプーン

スプーン · supuun · JLPT N5 · noun

spoon

🥄 supuun = English spoon, with a u slipped in after the s and a long oo

A loanword from English spoon. Japanese cannot say s+p together, so a u is inserted: su-pu-u-n. The long mark ー stretches the oo sound, and the final ン is the closing n. Say spoon slowly with a Japanese rhythm and you have it.

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