First opened Friday, June 24, 2011
ガレージ
ガレージ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
- 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).
garage (at house)
ガレージ is borrowed from English garage, perhaps from British English, and from French garage.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
ガレージは錆びている。
The garage has rusted.
父はガレージを掃除している。
My father is sweeping the garage.
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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.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- Hedged“Borrowed from English garage (given the transcribed form, perhaps borrowed from British English garage), from French garage. Doublet of グラージ.”
Source: Wiktionary: ガレージ (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.