Managing to distribute all fliers with 〜終える

Grammar Explanation: Managing to complete an action with 〜終える

Cocoa encounters Syaro standing outside.

ココア:: 「今日はチラシ配(くば)り？」; “You're handing out fliers today?”
シャロ:: 「全部(ぜんぶ)配(くば)り終(お)えるまで帰(かえ)れないわ」; “I can't go home until I finish handing out all of them.”

Key Points

配(くば)り終(お)える = finish handing them all out
- 〜終(お)える attaches to the verb stem, so 配(くば)る becomes 配(くば)り終(お)える.
- Here it means completing the whole flier-distribution task, with the feeling of getting through it rather than merely stopping.
全部(ぜんぶ)(を) is the omitted object
- In full form, 全部(ぜんぶ)を配(くば)り終(お)える means “finish handing out all of them”.
- The を is omitted because the object is clear from Cocoa’s previous line about fliers.
〜まで帰(かえ)れない = can’t go home until …
- The clause before まで gives the endpoint Syaro has to reach before going home.
- 全部(ぜんぶ)配(くば)り終(お)えるまで帰(かえ)れない means she cannot go home until the entire task is complete.