Japanese:Loanwords

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This page is about Loanwords that have entered Japanese from other languages (besides Chinese). Most of them are from English and they're typically written in katakana.

English Loanwords

クレジットカード credit card

ワイスツ "white suit"

チーズ cheese

ワンピース "one piece" (suit)

ミルク milk

ケーキ cake

ステーキ steak

オレンジ orange

ファストフード fastfood

ライオン lion

Loanwords From Other Languages

アルバイト "arbeit" (from german "work" means something like a part-time job)

ズボン "jupon" (from french "petticoat" meaning "pants")

パン "pan", "pão", "pain" (from spanish, portugese and french (repectively) meaning "bread")

カルタ "carta" (from portuguese meaning "(playing) cards"

ゴム "gom" (from dutch meaning "rubber")


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Introduction · Adjectives (形容詞) · Auxiliaries (助辞) · Emphatics (語尾) · Euphony (音便) · Kana (仮名) · Kanji (漢字): Comparisons (漢字の比べ) · Loanwords (伝来語) · Numbers (数詞) · Te Form (テ形) · Time (時間) · Particles (助詞) · Verbs (動詞): Example (動詞の例) · Lexicon
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