Drinking completely with 〜終わる
Grammar Explanation: Completing an action with 〜終わる
Chino explains the steps to perform coffee fortune telling.
- チノ:
- 「飲み終わった後に残ったコーヒーの模様で占うんです」
- “After you've finished drinking it, we tell fortunes from the patterns left in the coffee.”
- Literal: “After you have finished drinking, we tell fortunes with the pattern of coffee that remains.”
- “After you've finished drinking it, we tell fortunes from the patterns left in the coffee.”
- Step:
- 「① 飲みおわる」
- “① Finish drinking”
Key Points
1飲み終わる means finishing the act of drinking
- The stem 飲み joins 終わる to mark the normal endpoint of drinking the coffee.
2The past form places fortune telling after the drink
- 飲み終わった後に means “after you have finished drinking.”
3残ったコーヒーの模様 supplies the result used next
- The coffee pattern left after the completed action becomes the material for the fortune reading.
Vocabulary
模様 (Pattern)
模様 primarily has three meanings: (1) patterns or designs on the surface of an object, (2) the state or condition of a situation, and (3) a situation that is likely to occur in the future (speculation).
See Also
- Kanji: Forms and appearances with 様
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