プレゼント

プレゼント · purezento · JLPT N4 · noun

present

🎁 Loanword from English present: pu-re-zen-to

Japanese borrowed the English word present and reshaped it to fit its syllables: p becomes pu, s becomes z, and the final t gains an o. Say present slowly with extra vowels and you get purezento.

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