New Zealand
ニュージーランド
解説 Definition
ニュージーランド
An island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia. Its principal land areas are the North Island and the South Island, and the proper name is normally used without an article.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
オランダ語 Nieuw Zeeland（新しいゼーラント）が英語化した国名です。Zeeland はオランダの州名で、英語では New Zealand と二語で書きます。be from New Zealand、live in New Zealand のように冠詞なしで使い、住民を表す New Zealander と関連付けましょう。
Remember that New Zealand is historically “new Zeeland,” with Zeeland being the name of a Dutch province. The spelling changed into the English forms New and Zealand, so keep the country name as two capitalized words. Learn it through common patterns such as “be from New Zealand,” “live in New Zealand,” and “travel to New Zealand”; no article is normally added. Connect the country with New Zealander, the noun for a person from there, while remembering that Zeeland itself is a province in the Netherlands.
例文
My friend is from New Zealand.
友だちはニュージーランド出身です。
New Zealand has many sheep.
ニュージーランドには羊がたくさんいます。
New Zealand の類義語・関連語
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New Zealand の語源・成り立ち Etymology
オランダ語の Nieuw Zeeland（新しいゼーラント）に由来します。Zeeland はオランダの州の名前です。
New Zealand derives from Dutch Nieuw Zeeland, meaning “New Zeeland.” Zeeland is the name of a coastal province in the Netherlands, and Dutch mapmakers applied a form of that name to the Pacific islands in the seventeenth century. English later replaced Dutch nieuw with new and established the spelling Zealand. Thus, despite its modern English appearance, the second part of the country's name refers historically to the Dutch province rather than to the English word sea.
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