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テープレコーダー
テープレコーダー
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tape recorder
Tēpurekōdā is borrowed from English tape recorder.
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In a sentence
テープレコーダーは有用な教具です。
The tape recorder is a useful aid to teaching.
これは君のテープレコーダーですか。
Is this your tape recorder?
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Borrowed from English tape recorder.”
Source: Wiktionary: テープレコーダー (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.