Tuesday, November 20, 2018

words - 入り and 付き in these sentences


I saw some sentences like this, but I couldn't understand them. What do they mean?



砂糖入りのお茶。


胡椒付きのサラダ。




Answer






  1. 砂糖[入り]{いり}のお茶 = 砂糖が入っているお茶

  2. 胡椒付きのサラダ = 胡椒が付いているサラダ



入り and 付き are suffixes derived from the verbs 入る and 付く. The forms 入り and 付き are the 連用形 renyōkei (masu-stem) of the verbs and behave much like nouns. This is why you see that 砂糖入り modifies お茶, a noun, with の.


For translation you could go for





  1. tea containing sugar

  2. salad with pepper





Many verbs do this, by the way. For example the suffix ~生まれ attaches to places and means "born in", e.g.



東京生まれの人
a person born in Tokyo


アメリカ生まれの日本人

a Japanese born in America



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