パーセント

パーセント · paasento · JLPT N3 · noun

percentage

💯 Borrowed from English percent, said the Japanese way: paa-sen-to

English percent comes from Latin per centum, by the hundred. Japanese stretches per into a long paa, and since its syllables end in vowels, the final t becomes to. Example: 50パーセント = 50 percent.

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