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:
- 「今日はチラシ配り？」
- “You're handing out fliers today?”
- シャロ:
- 「全部配り終えるまで帰れないわ」
- “I can't go home until I finish handing out all of them.”
- Literal: “I can't go home until I finish handing out all of them.”
Key Points
1配り終える = finish handing them all out
- 〜終える attaches to the verb stem, so 配る becomes 配り終える.
- Here it means completing the whole flier-distribution task, with the feeling of getting through it rather than merely stopping.
2全部(を) is the omitted object
- In full form, 全部を配り終える means “finish handing out all of them”.
- The を is omitted because the object is clear from Cocoa’s previous line about fliers.
3〜まで帰れない = can’t go home until …
- The clause before まで gives the endpoint Syaro has to reach before going home.
- 全部配り終えるまで帰れない means she cannot go home until the entire task is complete.
Vocabulary
今日 (Today)
今日 means today. In formal writing, it can also mean the present day or current era.
全部 (Whole)
全部 means everything or the whole, with nothing left out.
See Also
- Grammar: Managing to complete an action with 〜終える
- Grammar: Until an action occurs with 〜まで
- Grammar: Marking the topic with は and も
- Kanji: Now and the present with 今
- Kanji: Sections and departments with 部
- Kanji: Wholeness and completion with 全
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