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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.

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