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This coffee with これ

Vocabulary Explanation: This with これ

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Cocoa tries to show off her ability to recognize the three types of coffee Chino made for her.

ココア:
「この上品(じょうひん)な香(かお)り！ これがブルーマウンテンかー」
“What a refined aroma! So this is Blue Mountain, huh?”
チノ:
「いいえコロンビアです」
“No, that's Columbian.”

Key Points

1これ points to the coffee Cocoa is holding
  • これ means “this” because the cup of coffee is on Cocoa’s side of the conversation, close to her as the speaker.
2この modifies 香(かお)り
  • この上品(じょうひん)な香(かお)り means “this refined aroma”; この must attach directly to a noun, here 香(かお)り.
3これが marks the item being identified
  • In これがブルーマウンテン, が singles out this coffee as the thing Cocoa is trying to identify.
4かー shows Cocoa’s drawn-out realization or guess
  • The ending かー gives the line a casual, drawn-out feel, like “So this is Blue Mountain, huh.”
  • Chino’s immediate いいえ shows that Cocoa sounded confident enough to be corrected.

Vocabulary

(This)

この means “this” or “these” and comes directly before a noun. It points to something near the speaker or something the speaker is referring to in the conversation.

(Elegant)

上品(じょうひん) means elegant or refined in manner or appearance.

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