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ダース Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ダース

ダ

ー

ス

Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

noun

dozen

usually written using kana alone

Standard loanword for a dozen (12 items). Used in counting, shopping, and recipes.

from English doz(en)

卵たまごを1ダース買かってきてください。
Please buy a dozen eggs.
この箱はこには鉛えん筆ぴつが半はんダース入

はい

っ

て

い

ます

。

This box contains half a dozen pencils.

Written forms

ダースUsage100%
Standard katakana spelling for the loanword 'dozen'.
打だーす
ateji (phonetic kanji usage)rarely-used kanji form
Ateji spelling; rarely used. It is ateji and rarely used kanji form.

Kanji

打strike, hit, knock

Similar words

十じゅう二に
十二 is the native Japanese number 'twelve', while ダース specifically means a group or set of twelve items.

Etymology

Borrowed from English 'dozen'.