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That schoolhouse over there with あれ

Vocabulary Explanation: That over there with あれ

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Chiya takes Cocoa to see where her new school is located. Coca is filled with excitement to see it.

ココア:
「あれが私(わたし)の新(あたら)しい 学(まな)び舎(や)かぁ」
“So that over there is my new schoolhouse.”
「見(み)てるだけでわくわくしてくるよ」
“Just looking at it makes me excited.”

Key Points

1あれ identifies the distant schoolhouse
  • Cocoa can see the building away from her position, so あれ means “that over there”.
2あれが〜学(まな)び舎(や) identifies one thing as another
  • が marks the distant building as the subject.
3見(み)てるだけで means “just by looking”
  • 見(み)てる contracts 見(み)ている, and だけで limits the cause of Cocoa’s excitement to seeing the building.
4わくわくしてくる presents the excitement as beginning
  • The helper くる describes the feeling arising as Cocoa looks at her new school.

Vocabulary

(I)

私(わたし) means “I” or “me”. It is the standard first-person pronoun in polite speech and is also common in casual speech among women.

(School building)

学び舎(まなびや) refers to a place of learning, such as a school or school building.

(To see)

見(み)る means to see or look at something. It can also mean to examine its condition or nature.

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