► 名詞
酒 [(2)さけ] meaning: alcohol rank: 1
☆ 私は酒は飲まない ⇨ I don’t drink alcohol (☛ Rice wine in the strict sense, but alcoholic drinks in general in the broader sense)
► 接尾辞
酒 [しゅ] meaning: alcohol rank: 2
☆ 洋酒と日本酒のどちらが好きですか？ ⇨ Which alcohol drink you like better, western ones or japanese one
More examples:
- 日本酒好きには堪えられない旨さ ⇨ The taste Japanese sake fans cannot resist
- 今日はなんか酒の回りが早い ⇨ Today alcohol somehow affects me more than usual
- 一人でいるとつい酒を飲んでしまう ⇨ When I’m alone I can’t help myself drinking alcohol
- 私は酒を飲まない ⇨ I don’t drink alcohol
- うちの父親は酒乱だった ⇨ My father was a violent alcoholic
- 彼は酒気を帯びていた ⇨ He had some alcohol in his system
- 彼はいかにも酒が好きそうな感じだ ⇨ He definitely looks like someone who loves to drink
- 彼はいつも人に酒を無理に進める ⇨ He always forcibly offer drinks to other people
- 彼は酒癖が悪い ⇨ He becomes very difficult when he is drunk
- 私は酒に弱い ⇨ I can’t hold liquor
- 灘は酒所として知られる ⇨ Nada is known as a sake-producing region
- 密造酒 (みつぞうしゅ) ⇨ Illegally made alcohol drinks
- 彼等は夜通し酒を飲んだ ⇨ They kept drinking throughout the night
- お酒は嗜む程度です ⇨ I only drink moderately
- 彼は麻薬は無論のこと、酒も一切飲まない ⇨ He doesn’t do any drugs of course, but he doesn’t even drink any alcohol