ソフト

ソフト · sofuto · JLPT N4 · na-adj

soft

💾🎩 ソフト = English soft, with u and o added: so-fu-to

A loanword from English soft. Japanese syllables need vowels, so f gains u and t gains o. It also clips longer words: ソフトウェア (software) and ソフト帽 (soft felt hat) both shorten to ソフト.

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