How to Say ‘I ate a lot of spicy food.’ in Japanese
からいものをたくさんたべました。
karai mono o takusan tabe mashi ta
💬 Usage Tip: Polite past tense: [食べました]. Tip: [たべました] is written in kana here, but the common kanji is [食べました].
🇯🇵 In Japan: A natural pharmacy “context + symptom” combo: [からいものをたくさん食べました。胃が痛いです。] This helps staff recommend stomach medicine like antacids.
Phrase Breakdown
からいものを
karai mono o
spicy things (object marker)
を marks the direct object of the verb. Here: “(I) ate spicy things.”
やさいをたべます。
I eat vegetables.
Words in this phrase
からい
karai
もの
mono
を
o
たくさん
takusan
たべ
tabe
まし
mashi
た
ta
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