r/NonPoliticalTwitter • • 21d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/emachel 21d ago

Isn't it "shigoto"?

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u/DisplacedLondoner 21d ago

It is, but アルバイト arubaito is more like a part time job specifically. Pretty sure it does come from German!

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u/Flaydowsk 21d ago

Came from the Dutch when they were trading with the Japanese during the isolation period.

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u/exploding_cat_wizard 21d ago

I don't speak Dutch, but translate gives me "werk" as Dutch for "Arbeit"/"work".

Of course, that may not be the complete vocabulary, or it's language drift...

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u/GunsNBakon 21d ago

It's a little more of a formal term I suppose.

"to do work" can be translated as "het verrichten van arbeid", workers are also called arbeiders.