That coffee with それ
Vocabulary Explanation: That with それ
Sampling the second coffee, Cocoa mistakenly identifies the coffee as Kilimanjaro. Chino corrects her.
- ココア:
- 「この酸味…キリマンジャロだね」
- “This acidity… it's definitely Kilimanjaro.”
- チノ:
- 「それがブルーマウンテンです」
- “That is Blue Mountain.”
Key Points
1それ points to the coffee near Cocoa
- Chino uses それ because the coffee is on Cocoa’s side of the conversation, close to the listener rather than to Chino.
- The English “that” matches Chino’s viewpoint. She is pointing out the coffee Cocoa is sampling, not something beside herself.
2この modifies 酸味, not the whole coffee
- この酸味 means “this acidity”; この attaches directly to the noun 酸味.
- Cocoa is reacting to one quality of the coffee, while Chino’s それ refers back to the coffee itself.
3それが marks the corrected identification
- In それがブルーマウンテンです, が singles out that coffee as the item being identified.
4だね versus です in the correction
- Cocoa’s キリマンジャロだね sounds casual and confident, like she is confirming her guess.
- Chino’s ブルーマウンテンです is a simple, polite correction.
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