ビル

ビル · biru · JLPT N4 · noun

building

🏢 ビル = biru, the first half of birudingu (building) clipped short

Japanese borrowed English building as ビルディング (birudingu), then trimmed it to ビル. Watch the vowel length: ビル (biru, short i) is a building, while ビール (biiru, long i) is beer.

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