This one is a bit tricky, in fact. What it means to say in English is “when the coffee is empty, we won’t refill it”.

In Japanese, instead of こちらのコーヒーが it should say こちらのコーヒーは. With the は it’s correctly implied that the こちらのコーヒーは refers to 終了になります, therefore “the coffee is over (when it’s empty)”. With the が, even though the mistake is obvious to an experienced speaker, it could be theoretically implied that こちらのコーヒーが refers to なくなり次第, therefore leaving the subject to 終了になります vague/dangling: “when the coffee is empty, [something else] is over”.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Wow that’s a good one. Thanks for this explanation post! I totally would have came up with the same English translation they did with my current level of Japanase, glad to see context on the grammar they used.

    • Vivia 🦆🍵🦀OP
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      21 year ago

      I hadn’t realised the mistake in Japanese either until my sensei pointed it out, to be fair! 😅