Example sentence with 酌む


I'm trying to learn the verb 酌む (to pour sake, to serve sake), but I can only
find a few sentences with this verb, and in these few sentences the verb 酌む
doesn't appear to express (in theory) its main meaning: to serve sake, but
derivative forms of 酌む like 酌み交わす or expressions like 意を酌む. So I would like
you to give me an example sentence (or some if you please) with 酌む (not 酌み交わす)
meaning "to pour sake, to serve sake".




I was browsing through the corpuses, and probably the cause of your difficulty
is just that 酌む is not really used in ordinary conversations.

  * 友達と酒を酌んだ I had a drink with a friend
  * 酒を酌みながらテレビを見た I drank sake watching TV

are not particularly weird, but normally I would say 友達と酒を **飲んだ** /酒を **飲み**
ながらテレビを見た.

* * *

酌み交わす may be used more frequently, but still sounds a bit dramatic.

  * いつか子供と酒を酌み交わしたい I want to drink with my children some day

Again, 酒を飲みたい sounds more usual to me.

* * *

On the other hand, the sense of _understand/guess_ is usual.

  * 事情を酌んで considering the circumstances
  * 意図を酌む guess/estimate the intention

* * *

[Edit]

  * 水をコップに汲む pour water into a glass

is perfectly normal. In the same way,

  * 日本酒をコップに酌む pour sake into a glass

should be fine. In this case what happens is only pouring, so 酌む can be
replaced only by そそぐ（注ぐ） or つぐ.

I said _should_ because for some reason I don't see any uses of 酌む with
explicitly mentioning where sake is being poured. There may be hidden rules
for use of 酌む that makes 日本酒を **コップに** 酌む ungrammatical, in which case 酒を酌む
always means 酒を飲む.




I was browsing through the corpuses, and probably the cause of your difficulty
is just that 酌む is not really used in ordinary conversations.

  * 友達と酒を酌んだ I had a drink with a friend
  * 酒を酌みながらテレビを見た I drank sake watching TV

are not particularly weird, but normally I would say 友達と酒を **飲んだ** /酒を **飲み**
ながらテレビを見た.

* * *

酌み交わす may be used more frequently, but still sounds a bit dramatic.

  * いつか子供と酒を酌み交わしたい I want to drink with my children some day

Again, 酒を飲みたい sounds more usual to me.

* * *

On the other hand, the sense of _understand/guess_ is usual.

  * 事情を酌んで considering the circumstances
  * 意図を酌む guess/estimate the intention

* * *

[Edit]

  * 水をコップに汲む pour water into a glass

is perfectly normal. In the same way,

  * 日本酒をコップに酌む pour sake into a glass

should be fine. In this case what happens is only pouring, so 酌む can be
replaced only by そそぐ（注ぐ） or つぐ.

I said _should_ because for some reason I don't see any uses of 酌む with
explicitly mentioning where sake is being poured. There may be hidden rules
for use of 酌む that makes 日本酒を **コップに** 酌む ungrammatical, in which case 酒を酌む
always means 酒を飲む.

