ホテル

ホテル · hoteru · JLPT N5 · noun

hotel

ホテル — hotel

🏨 hoteru = English hotel, with -ru standing in for the final L

A loanword from English, written in katakana. Japanese has no L sound and syllables can't end in a bare consonant, so hotel becomes ho-te-ru: the L turns into R and picks up a u.

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