チーム

チーム · chiimu · JLPT N3 · noun

team

⚽ Loanword from English team: tea-moo, chii + mu

Japanese borrowed team from English. The long ee becomes チー (chii) with a long-vowel bar, and the final m gets a vowel added to become ム (mu), since Japanese words cannot end in m.

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