センター

センター · sentaa · JLPT N3 · noun

center

🎯 Straight from English center, said Japanese-style as sen-taa

A katakana loanword from English center. Japanese has no final r sound, so the -er ending becomes a long aa vowel, written with the dash ー. You'll see it in shopping center and in sports for centre field or the center position.

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