マーケット

マーケット · maaketto · JLPT N3 · noun

market

🛒🏪 マーケット = maa-ket-to, straight from English market with a Japanese vowel tail

Japanese borrowed it from English. Each syllable gets a vowel: mar becomes maa, ket stays, and the final t turns into tto. Read it aloud slowly and the English word is right there.

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