► 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:
- うちの父親は酒乱だった ⇨ My father was a violent alcoholic
- 彼は大変な大酒飲みだ ⇨ He’s a super-heavy drinker
- 彼は酒をちびりちびり飲んでいる ⇨ He’s sipping his drink little by little
- 酒は止めたのではなかったのですか？ ⇨ I thought you quit drinking alcohol, didn’t you?
- 彼は酒を盃にとくとく注いだ ⇨ He poured sake in a cup with gluck-gluck
- 教師が飲酒運転で逮捕されたのでは生徒達に示しが付かない ⇨ A teacher getting arrested for DUI sets a very poor example for the students
- 彼は酒を飲むと気が大きくなる ⇨ He gets bold, liquid courage, when he gets drunk
- 私は酒に弱い ⇨ I can’t hold liquor
- 酒屋 ⇨ A liquor store
- 灘は酒所として知られる ⇨ Nada is known as a sake-producing region
- 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
- 彼はコップに酒を注ぎ足した ⇨ He added more drink to his cup
- 大学生達が酒を飲んで騒いでいる ⇨ College kids are getting drunk and rowdy
- 私は酒を絶った ⇨ I quit drinking (cold turkey)
- 彼女は酒は少ししか飲まない ⇨ She drinks alcohol only a little