データ

データ · deeta · JLPT N3 · noun

data

📊 English loanword: data → dēta, with the long e of day-ta

Japanese borrowed data from English and wrote it in katakana. The long vowel mark ー stretches the de into dee, so it sounds like day-ta. It covers the same ground as the English word: figures, records and files.

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