ボート

ボート · booto · JLPT N3 · noun

rowing boat

🚣 ボート = booto, a loanword from English boat

Japanese has no plain b+t ending, so boat gets a long vowel and a final o: bo-o-to. The katakana marks it as a loanword. In Japanese it usually means a small rowing boat, the kind you hire on a park pond, not a big ship.

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