Minimum Expectation

Vocabulary

  1. さすが – as expected
  2. プロ – professional
  3. うまい (i-adj) – skillful, delicious
  4. ゲーム – game
  5. 文句 【もん・く】 – complaint
  6. 食べる 【た・べる】 (ru-verb) – to eat
  7. 高い 【たか・い】 (i-adj) – expensive
  8. 勉強 【べん・きょう】 – study
  9. 着く 【つ・く】 (u-verb) – to arrive
  10. 壊れる 【こわ・れる】 (ru-verb) – to break

Grammar related to whether something met, didn’t meet, or was just an expectation.

だけあって (As expected of)

Used when a result matches the high expectation derived from a reason.

さすが、プロだけあってうまい。 - As expected of a pro, he's skillful.
高いだけあって、おいしい。 - As you'd expect from something expensive, it's delicious.
日本人だけあって、日本語が上手だ。 - As expected of a Japanese person, their Japanese is good.

ばかり (Nothing but / Just)

Used to express that there is so much of something, or one does nothing but that action.

ゲームばかりしている。 - He does nothing but play games.
文句ばかり言う。 - They do nothing but complain.
食べてばかりいる。 - They're always just eating.

Just finished 

今、着いたばかりだ。 - I just arrived.
始めたばかりです。 - I just started.
買ったばかりなのに壊れた。 - It broke even though I just bought it.