ソックス

ソックス · sokkusu · JLPT N1 · noun

sock

🧦 Loanword from English 'socks', spelled out in katakana as sokku-su. Sounds like 'sock us' with a pause.

Japanese borrowed the English word socks, so it is written in katakana. The small ッ doubles the k sound, the same short stop as the 'ck' in English 'sock'.

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