ニュース

ニュース · nyuusu · JLPT N5 · noun

news

📰 nyuusu = English news, respelled in katakana with a long uu

A loanword from English news. Japanese has no standalone final s, so a u is added: nyuu-su. The long ー stretches the vowel, matching the long oo sound in the English word.

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