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teniseu · TOPIK 1

tennis

🎾 te-ni-seu = English tennis, with a soft eu added after the final s

A direct loanword from English. Korean syllables cannot end in an s sound, so the filler vowel eu is added: ten-nis becomes te-ni-seu. Say tennis slowly in three beats and you already have the Korean word.

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