テープ

テープ · teepu · JLPT N5 · noun

tape

テープ — tape

📼 teepu = English tape, stretched: tay-pu with a long e

A loanword from English tape. Japanese has no final consonants except n, so a u is added after p, and the long vowel mark ー stretches the e. Say tape slowly with a trailing u and you have テープ.

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