ピザ
ピザ
hepburn piza
pizza
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 友達とピザを食べました。I ate pizza with a friend.
- ピザを一枚注文しました。I ordered one pizza.
- このピザはチーズが多いです。This pizza has a lot of cheese.
Collocations
ピザ (piza, pizza)ピザを食べる (piza o taberu, eat pizza)ピザを注文する (piza o chuumon suru, order a pizza)ピザ屋 (piza-ya, pizzeria)宅配ピザ (takuhai piza, delivery pizza)
Mnemonic
ピザ — piza, a loanword from Italian "pizza". Written in katakana. The loanwords so far came mostly from English, but ピザ's homeland is Italy. Its road into Japan was not direct ── in the late 20th century it arrived through American pizza chains. Italian "pizza" is pronounced [ˈpittsa], with a tense tts in the middle. Japanese softens that into ピザ. Some shops write the more faithful ピッツァ (pittsa) ── the spelling of an authentic Italian restaurant. Everyday speech says ピザ; the authentic spelling is ピッツァ. Korean "pija" walked the same road ── born in Italy, passing through America, reaching East Asia as a word of similar sound.
Quick check
What is the origin language of ピザ?