ソファー

ソファー · sofuァu · JLPT N3 · noun

sofa

ソファー — sofa

🛋️ Loanword: sofa → ソファー (sofā), with the last vowel stretched out

Japanese borrowed the English word sofa. ソ = so, ファ = fa, and the long-vowel mark ー stretches the final a, so it is read sofā. It sounds like a relaxed English sofa.

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