リットル

リットル · rittoru · JLPT N2 · noun

liter

🥛 リットル sounds like little: a liter is a little more than a quart

Liter comes from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek litra, an old unit of weight. Japanese リットル is the English loanword, so say it like little with a longer ending.

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