隣の家ではお菓子を食べてばかりいます。
- The people next door do nothing but eat snacks.
This Japanese sentence "隣の家ではお菓子を食べてばかりいます。" means "The people next door do nothing but eat snacks." in English. It is an N3 High-level example sentence.
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隣の家ではお菓子を食べてばかりいます。 meaning: The people next door are always eating sweets.
⚫︎The phrase 隣の家 combines the noun 隣 meaning next door and 家 meaning house. ⚫︎The particle の connects the two nouns to show that the house belongs to or is located next door.
⚫︎The noun 家 is followed by the compound particle では. ⚫︎で indicates the location where an action takes place, meaning at or in. ⚫︎は is the topic marker, which highlights 隣の家では as the main theme of the sentence.
⚫︎The noun お菓子 means sweets or snacks. ⚫︎The particle を marks お菓子 as the direct object of the verb 食べて. ⚫︎It shows what is being consumed in the action.
⚫︎The grammar pattern 〜てばかりいる is a key N3 expression used to indicate that someone continuously or repeatedly does only one thing. ⚫︎The verb 食べる changes to its -te form 食べて and attaches to ばかりいます. ⚫︎This structure often carries a slight nuance of criticism or mild exasperation from the speaker.
⚫︎The sentence ends with います, which is the polite non-past form of the verb いる. ⚫︎It polite-ifies the entire statement, making it suitable for general conversation with people you are not close to. ⚫︎It also indicates a continuous action happening currently or as a habitual state.