レストラン

レストラン · resutoran · JLPT N5 · noun

restaurant

レストラン — restaurant

🍽️ re-su-to-ran = English restaurant, with the final t dropped

A loanword from French/English restaurant, written in katakana. Japanese adds vowels between consonants (res → resu, t → to) and drops the silent final t, ending on ン (n). Say restaurant slowly with extra vowels and you have it.

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