First opened Sunday, December 14, 2008
テーマ
テーマ
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
theme, project, topic (GER: Thema)
テーマ comes from German “Thema”, first cited in a text from 1910.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
卒論のテーマは決めましたか。
Have you decided on the subject of your thesis?
両方の展望にはある共通のテーマがある。
A common theme underlies both perspectives.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Borrowed from German Thema.”
- “First cited in a text from 1910.”
Source: Wiktionary: テーマ (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.