スポーツ

スポーツ · supootsu · JLPT N5 · noun

sport

⚽🏀 Borrowed from English sports: su-po-o-tsu, with a long o

A katakana loanword from English sports. Japanese adds a vowel after s (su), stretches the or into a long o (ポー), and ends on tsu (ツ) since it has no bare ts. It is used for both sport and sports.

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