デザート
デザート
hepburn dezaato
dessert
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 食事の後にデザートを食べます。I have dessert after the meal.
- 今日のデザートは何ですか。What's today's dessert?
Collocations
デザート (dezaato, dessert)スイーツ (suiitsu, sweets)お菓子 (okashi, confection)甘い (amai, sweet)パフェ (pafe, parfait)
Mnemonic
Dezaato (デザート) is the katakana borrowing of "dessert" — the sweet course at the end of a Western-style meal. Traditional Japanese meals ended only with mizugashi (fruit / light sweets); the dessert course proper arrived with Western and Chinese cuisines in the Meiji era. Modern Japan is a dessert powerhouse — suiitsu (sweets, English loan) is the trendier / Instagram register. Rich category: pafe (parfait), keeki (cake), aisu (ice cream). Pronunciation: de-za-a-to, 4 mora, flat per-mora unlike English stress. Wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) and dezaato split the field in two layers.
Quick check
Traditional-side word in Japan's dessert split?