tumetai zyuusu bakari nomu to, karada ga hierukoto ga arimasu.

Questions & Answers about tumetai zyuusu bakari nomu to, karada ga hierukoto ga arimasu.

Why are there spaces between the words?

Japanese is normally written without spaces.

So the standard writing would be:

冷たいジュースばかり飲むと、体が冷えることがあります。

The spaces here are just a learning aid to make the sentence parts easier to see.

Why is 冷たい used directly before ジュース without ?

Because 冷たい is an い-adjective.

  • い-adjectives go directly before a noun
    • 冷たいジュース = cold juice
  • な-adjectives need before a noun
    • for example, 静かな部屋 = a quiet room

So 冷たいジュース is correct, and 冷たいなジュース would be wrong.

What does ばかり mean here?

Here, ばかり means something like:

So 冷たいジュースばかり飲む means that someone drinks only or mostly cold juice.

A small nuance:

  • It can sound like a repeated habit
  • It can also carry a feeling of too much of that one thing

So the sentence is not just describing a random one-time action. It suggests a pattern or habit.

Does 冷たいジュースばかり飲む mean you only drink cold juice, or that you drink cold juice too often?

It can suggest both, depending on context.

Most basically, it means:

  • you drink only/mostly cold juice

But ばかり often has a nuance of:

  • you keep doing that
  • you do that more than is ideal

So in this sentence, it sounds a bit like a warning about a habit: drinking cold juice all the time.

Why are 飲む and 冷える in plain form instead of 飲みます and 冷えます?

Because inside a sentence like this, Japanese usually uses the plain form in subordinate clauses and grammar patterns.

Here:

  • 飲む comes before
  • 冷える comes before ことがあります

Both of those normally take the plain form.

The sentence is still polite overall because it ends with あります.

So this is completely normal:

  • 冷たいジュースばかり飲むと、体が冷えることがあります。

Using 飲みますと or 冷えますことがあります here would sound unnatural.

What does mean here?

Here, is a conditional, meaning if or when.

So:

  • 飲むと = if you drink / when you drink

But this is often used for:

  • general truths
  • natural consequences
  • habitual results

That fits this sentence well, because it is saying a general result:

  • if you keep drinking only cold juice, your body may get chilled

This is less about a personal decision and more about a predictable result.

Why is marked with ?

Because is the subject of 冷える.

  • 冷える = to get cold / to become chilled
  • What gets cold?
  • So: 体が冷える

Japanese often describes bodily conditions this way, with the body or body part as the subject.

English often says:

  • you get cold

Japanese often says something closer to:

  • your body gets cold
  • your stomach gets cold
  • your hands get cold

So 体が is very natural.

Why is 冷える used here instead of 冷やす?

Because 冷える and 冷やす are different kinds of verbs.

  • 冷える = something gets cold, becomes chilled
    • intransitive
  • 冷やす = to cool or chill something
    • transitive

In this sentence, the body is becoming chilled, not actively being chilled by a person as a direct object.

So:

  • 体が冷える = the body gets cold

If you used 冷やす, it would mean someone is cooling something:

  • 体を冷やす = to cool the body

That is a different structure and meaning.

Why are there two particles in 体が冷えることがあります?

Because there are really two layers in that part of the sentence.

First layer:

  • 体が冷える = the body gets cold

Second layer:

  • 体が冷えること = the event of the body getting cold
  • 体が冷えることがあります = there are times when the body gets cold

So the two do different jobs:

  • the first marks as the subject of 冷える
  • the second marks 体が冷えること as the subject of あります

This is very common in Japanese when a whole clause is turned into a noun-like phrase with こと.

What does ことがあります mean here?

〜ことがあります means:

  • there are times when ...
  • ... sometimes happens
  • ... may happen

So:

  • 体が冷えることがあります = your body may get chilled / sometimes your body gets chilled

The こと turns the verb phrase into an event or occurrence:

  • 冷える = to get cold
  • 冷えること = the act/event of getting cold

Then あります literally means that such an event exists.

This pattern makes the statement softer and less absolute than simply saying:

  • 体が冷えます = your body gets cold

With ことがあります, the meaning is more like:

  • this can happen
  • this happens sometimes
  • this is a possible result
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