パーティー

パーティー · paateィu · JLPT N5 · noun

party

🎉🎂 Loanword: English party stretched into paa-tii, both vowels held long

Japanese borrowed the English word party and wrote it in katakana. The two long marks (ー) stretch each vowel: paa + tii. Say party slowly, dragging both syllables, and you have the Japanese word.

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