プール

プール · puuru · JLPT N5 · noun

swimming pool

プール — swimming pool

🏊 puuru = English pool, with a stretched uu and a Japanese r

A loanword from English pool. Japanese has no final l, so it becomes ru, and the long oo is written with the ー length mark: pu-u-ru. In Japanese it means a swimming pool specifically, not the game of pool or a puddle.

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