First opened Saturday, October 5, 2013
デパート
デパート
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
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).
(abbr.) department store
Taken apart
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In a sentence
デパートで買った。
I bought it at a department store.
彼はデパートへ買い物に行った。
He went shopping at a department store.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.