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Eating breakfast like a giant monster with 怪獣

Kanji Explanation: Strange things and monsters with 怪

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At breakfast, Touya teases Sakura for stomping down the stairs like a giant monster. He finishes eating and heads out on his bike to meet his friend Yukito on their way to school. Sakura hurries to eat her breakfast and get her roller blades on, so she can see Yukito, too. When they reach Yukito, he commends Sakura for being up early.

桃矢(とうや):
「怪獣(かいじゅう)は五分(ごふん)で朝飯(あさめし)食(く)えるからな」
“Well, monsters can finish breakfast in five minutes.”
Literal: “Because a monster can eat breakfast in five minutes.”

Key Points

1五分(ごふん)で = in five minutes
  • The particle で marks the amount of time it takes to finish the action.
2朝飯(あさめし)食(く)える is rough, casual speech
  • 朝飯(あさめし) is a casual, rougher word for “breakfast” than 朝食(ちょうしょく).
  • 食(く)える is the potential form of 食(く)う, a rougher verb for “eat”.

Vocabulary

(Giant monster)

怪獣(かいじゅう) is a giant fictional monster, especially the creature-like stars of Japanese science fiction films.

(Five minutes or fifty percent)

五分(ごふん) means five minutes. With the reading 五分(ごぶ), it means five tenths, or half.

(Breakfast)

朝飯(あさめし) is a casual word for breakfast.

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