飲み物

のみもの · nomimono · JLPT N5 · noun

drink

飲み物 — drink

🥤 飲み物 = nomi (drinking) + mono (thing): a drinking-thing

飲み comes from the verb 飲む (nomu, to drink) and 物 (mono) means thing. The same pattern builds 食べ物 (tabemono, eating-thing = food), so learning one gives you the other.

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