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メートル

メートル

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meter

JLPT N5Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)外来語 · LoanwordBorrowing

Mētoru is from French mètre, a doublet of メーター (mētā).

Taken apart

  1. メートル

    メートル

    French mètre

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In a sentence

  • 前(まえ)の人(ひと)から1メートル離(はな)れて並(なら)んでください。

    Form a line, keeping one meter away from the person in front of you.

    Tatoeba #140982, translation #273590

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “From French mètre. Doublet of メーター (mētā, “meter”, measuring instrument).”

Source: Wiktionary: メートル (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

外来語 Loanword
Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
Borrowing
Taken over from another language.

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See also
  • メーター

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