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Grocery shopping plan understood with 了解

Kanji Explanation: Separating and understanding with 解

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Mao needs Hiro to go grocery shopping with her due to a sale that’s limited per customer. She tells him the plan is to start by grabbing everyday household items first.

真魚(まお):
「それから食品(しょくひん)へ」
“Then move on to food.”
「ただし２人きりなので欲張(よくば)り禁止(きんし)」
“But since it's just the two of us, no hoarding allowed!”
「硬(かた)く重(おも)いものからカゴに入(い)れていく素早(すばや)く！！」
“Quickly start putting hard, heavy items into the basket!!”
基(ひろ):
「了解(りょうかい)　了解(りょうかい)」
“Roger that.”
Literal: “Understood, understood.”

Key Points

1了解(りょうかい) means understood
  • 了解(りょうかい) acknowledges that you have understood instructions, a plan, or a request.
  • Hiro repeats it to show he has taken in Mao’s grocery-shopping strategy.
2入(い)れていく describes proceeding through the shopping
  • 〜ていく can describe continuing an action forward from the current point.
  • Here Mao wants them to start loading items into the basket in order, beginning with hard and heavy things.

Vocabulary

(Understanding)

了解(りょうかい) is a term that means understanding what the other person has said or the circumstances involved, and acknowledging or accepting them.

(Food product)

食品(しょくひん) is a general term for edible items that people consume to obtain nutrition. It refers to items that can be used directly as ingredients in cooking or eaten as is.

(Prohibition)

禁止(きんし) means prohibition, forbidding, or making something not allowed.

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