マッサージ

マッサージ · massaaji · JLPT N3 · noun

massage

💆 Massaaji is the English word massage, said with Japanese sounds

A loanword from English massage, written in katakana as ma-s-sa-a-ji. The small ッ doubles the s sound, the long ー stretches the a, and the final ge becomes ji because Japanese has no soft g ending.

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