ナンバー

ナンバー · nanbaa · JLPT N2 · noun

number

🔢 Loanword from English number: say NUM-ber with Japanese vowels, nan-ba-a, with a long final vowel

Japanese katakana turns English number into nanbaa, adding vowels and a long final sound. The same word is used for license plates, as in nanbaa purēto, a number plate.

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