レストラン
解説 Definition
restaurants は restaurant（レストラン）の複数形です。複数の飲食店やレストラン全般について話すときに使います。
Restaurants is the plural form of restaurant and refers to two or more businesses where customers pay to sit and eat meals. It can also describe such eating establishments as a general category.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
restaurant に複数語尾 -s を付けた形で、語末が無声音 /t/ のため -s は /s/ と発音します。「駅の近くに多くある」「新しい店を2軒試す」のように、複数の飲食店を数える場面を思い浮かべましょう。restaurant は1軒、restaurants は2軒以上または飲食店全般です。
Start with the singular restaurant, then add -s when speaking about two or more places to eat. Because restaurant ends in the voiceless sound /t/, the plural ending is pronounced /s/, not /z/. Picture a station area with many restaurants or imagine trying two new restaurants in one week. Those scenes make the number contrast concrete: one restaurant, several restaurants. The word can also refer broadly to the business category, as in “Some restaurants close early,” where no particular set of establishments needs to be named.
例文
There are many restaurants near the station.
駅の近くにはたくさんのレストランがあります。
We tried two new restaurants this week.
今週、私たちは新しいレストランを2軒試しました。
Some restaurants close early on Sundays.
日曜日は早く閉まるレストランもあります。
restaurants の類義語・関連語
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restaurants の語源・成り立ち Etymology
フランス語 restaurant（回復させるもの）から。動詞 restaurer（回復する）の現在分詞が名詞化。ラテン語 restaurare（修復する）が語源。restore（復元する）と同根。18世紀パリで「体力を回復させるスープを出す店」が語の始まり。
Restaurants is formed from restaurant plus the regular plural ending -s. Restaurant entered English from French restaurant, originally something restorative, from restaurer, meaning “to restore.” This ultimately goes back to Latin restaurare, also the source of English restore. In eighteenth-century Paris, restaurant was associated with restorative foods such as nourishing broths and then became the name for an establishment serving meals. The modern plural simply refers to multiple such establishments.
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