バター

バター · bataa · JLPT N5 · noun

butter

バター — butter

🧈 Loanword from English butter: ba-taa, with the final -er stretched to a long a

Japanese borrowed the English word and wrote it in katakana. English -er endings regularly become a long a (ー), as in バター. Say butter with a flat, drawn-out ending and you already have it.

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