#3: Dressing price hike due to steep cooking oil prices: 216 yen to 222 yen a bottle

Sorry I’m late with this one. The 🍼 are very clingy right now. If I leave the room, they cry. If I try to work in their line of sight, they’ve got their hands on my devices. πŸ˜‘

Look forward to hearing from you!

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price hike

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(salad) dressing price hike

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Dressing price hike due to steep prices

  • で means ‘and’ when used to connect two separate sentences.
  • Sometimes those sentences don’t directly affect each other but if the first half is the reason for the second half then で acts like ‘because’, ‘since’ or ‘due to’ as it does in this sentence.

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Dressing price hike due to steep cooking oil prices

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ι£Ÿη”¨ζ²Ήι«˜ι¨°γ§γƒ‰γƒ¬γƒƒγ‚·γƒ³γ‚°ε€€δΈŠγ’γ€€1本222円に
Dressing price hike due to steep cooking oil prices : to 222 yen a bottle

  • 1本 is in number+counter format. This counter is for bottles.
  • It’s uncommon to hear a number without a counter if you’re specifying a number of something.

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ι£Ÿη”¨ζ²Ήι«˜ι¨°γ§γƒ‰γƒ¬γƒƒγ‚·γƒ³γ‚°ε€€δΈŠγ’γ€€1本216円→222円に
Dressing price hike due to steep cooking oil prices: 216 yen to 222 yen a bottle

 

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