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Drinking completely with 〜終わる

Grammar Explanation: Completing an action with 〜終わる

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Chino explains the steps to perform coffee fortune telling.

チノ:
「おじいちゃんのカフェ・ド・マンシーは当(あ)たりすぎて怖(こわ)いと有名(ゆうめい)でした」
“Grandpa's Café de Mancy was famous for predictions so accurate they were scary.”
「飲(の)み終(お)わった後(あと)に残(のこ)ったコーヒーの模様(もよう)で占(うらな)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.”

Key Points

1飲(の)み終(お)わる means finishing the act of drinking
  • The stem 飲(の)み joins 終(お)わる to mark the normal endpoint of drinking the coffee.
2The past form places fortune telling after the drink
  • 飲(の)み終(お)わった後(あと)に means “after you have finished drinking.”
3残(のこ)ったコーヒーの模様(もよう) supplies the result used next
  • The coffee pattern left after the completed action becomes the material for the fortune reading.
4当(あ)たりすぎて怖(こわ)い links excessive accuracy to fear
  • The て-form of すぎる connects Grandpa’s unusually accurate readings with the café’s frightening reputation.

Vocabulary

(Famous)

有名(ゆうめい) means famous or well-known.

(Pattern)

模様(もよう) means a pattern or design. It can also describe how a situation stands or what appears likely to happen.

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