フォーク
フォーク
hepburn fooku
fork
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- フォークでパスタを食べます。I eat pasta with a fork.
- フォークが見つかりません。I can't find a fork.
Collocations
フォーク (fooku, fork)ナイフ (naifu, knife)スプーン (supuun, spoon)箸 (hashi, chopsticks)パスタ (pasuta, pasta)
Mnemonic
Fooku (フォーク) is the katakana borrowing of English "fork" — Western cutlery. Traditional Japanese eating uses only hashi (chopsticks); fooku entered the lexicon with Meiji-era Western dining. Pronunciation: フォ is a non-standard mora reserved for loanwords — fa / fi / fe / fo are katakana-only series. Same spelling フォーク also means "folk music" — context disambiguates. Set phrases: naifu to fooku, and the cultural pair hashi vs fooku. Children's manner training: "fooku no mochi-kata" (how to hold a fork).
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Katakana-only loanword phoneme series beyond the 5 native vowels?