Going to buy mugs with 〜に行く
Grammar Explanation: Going to for a purpose with 〜に行く

Cocoa discusses the café’s coffee cups with Chino.
- ココア:
- 「この前面白
( いカップ見( つけたんだ」- “I found an interesting cup the other day.”
- 「今度
( 買( いに行( かない?」- “Why don't we go buy some?”
- Literal: “Next time, won't we go for buying?”
- “I found an interesting cup the other day.”
- リゼ:
- 「へぇ どんな」
- “Oh? What kind?”
Key Points
1買( いに行( く states the purpose of going
- The group would go to the shop in order to buy the cups Cocoa mentioned.
2買( う uses its stem before に
- 買
( う becomes 買( い, followed by purpose marker に and movement verb 行( く.
3行( かない is an invitation here
- The negative question 今度
( 買( いに行( かない? means “why don’t we go buy them sometime?”
4見( つけたんだ supplies background for the invitation
- んだ explains why Cocoa proposes going shopping: she found an interesting cup earlier.
Vocabulary
今度 (This time)
今度
( means “this time” or “next time”, depending on context.行く (To go)
行
( く means to go or move toward a place away from the speaker.どんな (What kind of)
どんな asks what kind of person or thing something is.
See Also
- Grammar: Going to for a purpose with 〜に行く
- Grammar: Reasoning with 〜のだ
- Kanji: Measures and degrees with 度
- Kanji: Now and the present with 今
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