파티

pati · TOPIK 1

party

🎉🎂 파티 (pati) = English party, borrowed straight into Korean

A loanword from English. Korean has no r-coloured vowel, so par-ty flattens to pa-ti: 파 (pa) + 티 (ti). Say party with a clipped, r-less accent and you already have the Korean word.

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