Illustration: At a Japanese harbor warehouse, workers unpack a sea-freight crate containing Portuguese-style patterned ceramic tiles. The open container and ocean-going cargo ship remain visible through the loading bay behind them.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

外がい来らい

gairai

foreign, imported

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Example sentences

  1. 最近さいきんの日本語にほんごって、外来がいらい語ごが多おおいよね。

    Modern Japanese has a lot of foreign words.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 君きみは外来がいらい思想しそうに偏見へんけんを抱だいているようだ。

    You seem to be prejudiced against ideas that come from foreign countries.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 漢語かんごはもともと外来がいらい語ごです。

    Kanji compounds are originally loanwords.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 外来

  • 外outsideOnガイ・ゲKunそと・ほか・はずす
  • 来come; dueOnライ・タイKunくる・きたる・きたす

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