ドレス

ドレス · doresu · JLPT N3 · noun

dress

👗 Katakana loanword: dress = do-re-su, a vowel added after each consonant

English dress, borrowed into Japanese. Japanese has no consonant clusters, so d-r-ss becomes do-re-su. Reads almost exactly like the English word once the extra vowels are dropped.

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