Your Japanese Host Keeps Refilling Your Plate. Say This or It Never Stops.
To say I'm full, thank you in Japanese, say おなかいっぱいです (onaka ippai desu).
In Japan, a kind host will keep refilling your plate until you know the warm way to say stop.
おなかいっぱいです
onaka ippai desu
I'm full, thank you
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- おなかいっぱいです onaka ippai desu I'm full, thank you.
- ありがとうございます、おなかいっぱいです。 arigatō gozaimasu, onaka ippai desu. Thank you, I'm full.
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