ボールペン

ボールペン · boorupen · JLPT N5 · noun

pen

ボールペン — pen

🖊️ ボール + ペン = ball + pen, borrowed straight from English

A katakana loanword: booru is English ball and pen is pen, so boorupen is just ball-pen with Japanese vowels added. The long oo in ボール is marked by the ー bar. Say ball-pen slowly with an extra u and you have it.

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