Noun: katsu
| Singular | katsu |
| Plural | katsus |
Sample Sentences
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Things like yakisoba and katsu curry are all examples of this western mixing, while omurice has both French and American influences. I’m 50 now and I remember growing up in the 1970s with my mother making me omurice. [2026 July 26, Ammar Kalia, “‘I panic. It turns to rubber’: could I learn to make omurice, the ‘world’s hardest omelette’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like katsu
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Japanese カツ (katsu, “cutlet”), shortening of カツレツ (katsuretsu), itself from English cutlet. Thus a doublet of English cut. See: English Nouns '
cutlet', English Nouns '
cut'.