Too many drinks to finish with 〜きれない
Grammar Explanation: Unable to finish with 〜きれない (Future entry)
During the Eimei school festival, Moriya sits alone behind a hedge with several bottles of tea and sports drink beside her, and she gulps one down.
- 守屋:
- 「流石に全部は飲みきれないか」
- “Yeah, no way I can drink them all.”
Key Points
1飲みきれない, “can’t drink them all”
- 飲み is the stem of 飲む, “to drink”, and 〜きれない says she can’t get through the whole amount. She can drink some of it, as she just showed.
2全部は, “all of them”
- は sets 全部 against a smaller amount. “All of them” is out of reach, which suggests some of them aren’t.
3流石に, “realistically”
- 流石に admits that something goes beyond a reasonable limit. Here it says that drinking every bottle would be too much for anyone.
4か, talking to herself
- Moriya isn’t asking anyone. The sentence-final か marks a conclusion she has just come to, like “I guess” or “huh” in English.
Vocabulary
流石 (As expected)
流石 says that someone or something is just what you would expect. 流石に often admits a reasonable limit: “understandably” or “even so, that’s too much”. It is also written さすが.
全部 (Whole)
全部 means everything or the whole, with nothing left out.
飲む (To drink)
飲む is to drink something, or to take medicine.
See Also
- Grammar: Marking the topic with は and も
- Kanji: Sections and departments with 部
- Kanji: Wholeness and completion with 全
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