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Coming to buy coffee mugs with 〜に来る

Grammar Explanation: Coming to for a purpose with 〜に来る

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Rize explains to Syaro why she and her friends are at the store.

リゼ:
「喫茶店(きっさてん)で使(つか)うカップ買(か)いに来(き)たんだよ」
“We came to buy cups to use at the café.”
Literal: “We came for buying cups to use at the café.”
シャロ:
「そうだったんですか」
“Oh, I see.”

Key Points

1買(か)いに来(き)た states the purpose of coming
  • Rize and her friends came to the store in order to buy cups for the café.
2買(か)う uses its stem before に
  • 買(か)う becomes 買(か)い, followed by purpose marker に and movement verb 来(く)る.
3喫茶店(きっさてん)で使(つか)う modifies カップ
  • The clause identifies the cups as ones they will use at the café; it does not say they are buying them there.
4そうだったんですか acknowledges new information
  • The past copula だった accepts Rize’s explanation, while んですか shows Syaro revising what she had assumed.

Vocabulary

(Café)

喫茶店(きっさてん) means a café or Japanese-style coffeehouse serving drinks and light food.

(To come)

来(く)る means to come or move toward the speaker or the place being discussed.

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