買い物
かいもの · kaimono · JLPT N5 · noun
shopping
🛍️🛒 買い物 = buy (買い) + thing (物): buying things = shopping
買い (kai) comes from the verb 買う, to buy, and 物 (mono) means thing. Put together, kaimono is literally buy-things. The same 物 ending shows up in 食べ物 (eat-thing = food) and 飲み物 (drink-thing = beverage).