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Taking too much caffeine with 〜すぎる

Grammar Explanation: Too much with 〜すぎる

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Syaro explains that she can’t drink coffee.

シャロ:
「カフェインを摂(と)りすぎると異常(いじょう)なテンションになるみたいなの」
“It seems if I consume too much caffeine, I get abnormally hyper.”
Literal: “It seems that when I take in caffeine too much, I become abnormally excited.”

Key Points

1摂(と)りすぎる means consuming an excessive amount
  • 摂(と)る changes to the stem 摂(と)り before すぎる, and caffeine is the thing taken in.
2〜すぎると gives the consequence of excess
  • The conditional と links too much caffeine with Syaro entering 異常(いじょう)なテンション, a hyper state outside her norm.
3みたいなの softens the personal explanation
  • Syaro presents the reaction as how she seems to work, instead of giving a clinical rule about caffeine.

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