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"Let's eat the lunchbox and go outside."
Translation:お弁当を食べて、外に行きましょう。
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Would "boxed lunch" be better for the English here, since we don't generally eat "lunchboxes"? It sounds like someone trying to eat the box itself! :D
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The best way out of this problem would be to just use the word "bentou", just like we use the word "sushi" :)
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I have but it's not that common since this type of lunch isn't that common in the west. People who know what it is in Japan just call it "bento".
The te is required, because it forms the て form of the word 食べる (to eat). In earlier lessons we learnt individual sentences such as: お弁当を食べます。外に行きましょう。 You can use the てform to connect these sentences together - you swap out "食べます" with the te form of the verb: "食べて" to form the connected sentence above. It's worth having a look online at how to do the te form and when it's used as there's many different use cases!
I'm pleased to hear it! Just to expand on that as reading back I think it needs a bit more info - when we connect the two sentences together using the て form we also take the ending of the second. So in this case the separate sentences translate to: "I will eat lunch. Let's go outside" whereas with the て form it's "let's eat lunch and go outside", I.e. Taking the "let's" and applying it to both.
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お is a prefix for honour / politeness.
べんとう: a general lunchbox. It is used in impersonal contexts: the cooking guides of bento, the bento industry, health standards of bento...
おべんとう: somehow tend to mean your lunchbox (but do not translate in that way).
おべんとう is the polite form. You use it when discussing others belongings instead of (modestly) referring to your own. Similar to how my mother is 母「はは」and yours is お母さん「おかあさん」
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Nah you can eat the box if you like, I'll eat the lunch inside it.
In English a lunchbox is a type of box, not a type of lunch. Better would be "boxed lunch" or simply "bento".
But since the pronoun isn't specified for the honourific, both "bento" and "obento" should be accepted.
いしょにお弁当を食べましょうそして外へいきましょう
Tried this, but it's wrong. Don't really know why.
Your sentence= "Let's eat the/a lunchbox together, and then/so we can go outside." (and that's ignoring the first ましょう) minus some grammatical issues, you just added too many words :p
I'm not sure if that's right. If it is, then duo is probably aiming for teaching compound sentences rather than simply mashing them tigether with "and" in the middle.
We would say a 'cut lunch' here in Oz for 'bento' to mean a salad with some type of meat or fish
It wouldn't translate the same unfortunately, それから is closer to "and then" or "following that" 出かけます refers to going out to say, a venue or restaurant for entertainment purposes or dates and the like, not just going outside
It's not necessarily to show the order of the actions, but it's just a way to string two verbs together in a sentence, like saying "and."
I used 出かけましょう instead and got it wrong. Is there a difference between the two expressions ?
それから implies that you are going outside after eating the lunchbox, while using the て form on its own just means that you will do both. It's more of an "and" vs. "and then", with それから meaning "and then."
There no particle for "and". It's unclear to me if "eat the lunchbox" is a command and "go outside"is an invitation or if somehow both become an invitation.
The て form connects the two verbs in the sentence, and the tense of the last verb is the tense for the first verb. There is no direct word for "and" here, but that's basically what the て form does.
