セーター

セーター · seetaa · JLPT N5 · noun

sweater

セーター — sweater

🧶 セーター = English sweater, borrowed: see-taa

A loanword from English sweater, written in katakana. Japanese drops the w sound and stretches both vowels: su-we-ter becomes see-taa. Say sweater slowly without the w and you are nearly there.

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