ビール

ビール · biiru · JLPT N3 · noun

beer

ビール — beer

🍺 Biiru is just beer said the Japanese way: beer → bii-ru

Borrowed from Dutch bier in the Edo period, when Dutch traders at Nagasaki brought it over. That is why it is ビール and not ビア. Japanese adds a vowel after the final r, so beer becomes bii-ru.

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