Breakdown of doa wa sono shunkan ni aita.
Questions & Answers about doa wa sono shunkan ni aita.
In normal Japanese writing, there are usually no spaces between words.
So this sentence would normally be written as:
ドアはその瞬間に開いた。
The spaces here are just a learning aid to make the parts easier to see.
ドア is a loanword, from English door, so it is written in katakana.
Katakana is often used for:
- foreign loanwords
- onomatopoeia
- emphasis
- some technical terms
So ドア is the standard way to write door in Japanese.
