To express that I ordered food for take-out, do I use 「持ち帰り食べ物」 or just 「持ち帰り」?


The sentence I formed is 「持ち帰り食べ物用を買うしました。」 My intended meaning is, "I ordered
food for take-out". I'm not sure whether the construction is grammatically
correct or if it's redundant.

I'd like to share my process for forming this sentence, since I like to try
making sentences out of new words I learn in my self-study:

I recently read that 「持【も】ち帰【かえ】り」is used to mean "takeout/to-go" in the
context of ordering food, much like the loanword 「テイクアウト」. As such, I wanted
to practise constructing a sentence using that word.

Since "to buy" is 「買【か】う」, I decided to use that because I wasn't sure what
the appropriate word for "order" (in this context) was. I read that
「注文【ちゅうもん】」 can refer to an order, but I'm not sure if this can only be used
as a noun.

As "food" is 「食【た】べ物【もの】」, I thought of specifying that the take-out order is
food, and nothing else. I am not certain if saying 「持【も】ち帰【かえ】り食【た】べ物【もの】」 is
redundant or not (and if it isn't, I wasn't sure if I should express it as
「食【た】べ物【もの】の持【も】ち帰【かえ】り」 or just say 「持ち帰り食べ物」. )

I'd usually refer to Japanese language sites or a cursory Google search to
determine if my sentence construction is natural enough to appear on Japanese-
language posts, but everything I could find about 「持【も】ち帰【かえ】り」 seems to cater
to people _ordering food from an establishment_ , rather than _talking about
having ordered food from an establishment_.

Thank you very much for your time!




I like the thought process behind your translation attempt. ^_^

First, 「持ち帰り」literally means "to take, and then leave". In almost every
conceivable shopping situation, this is exactly what you do, once you've
bought something. You leave the store. Only with the purchase of food in a
restaurant that has tables for their customers would you ever need to
differentiate between a purchase to be bagged so you can leave with it, vs. a
purchase placed on a tray so you can enjoy it while still in the shop, which
is 店内 (tennai)... So deliberately including the word "food" in your
translation is as you suspected, redundant.

Japan is a language full of convenient short-form sentences, and this word is
one such example. If you go into a McDonald's, you can simply say your order,
then 持ち帰りで、お願いします。 which is "As take-out, please." or "I'd like that to go,
please." Similarly, if you want to eat in, you can say 店内で、お願いします。

If you are telling someone a story about having bought food as take-out, the
simplest way is to say Xを持ち帰りにした。"I bought X as take-out."




When ordering takeout usually you say お持ち帰り **で** お願いします。So If you wanted to
say "I ordered takeout ramen" you could say:

> 僕はラーメンをお持ち帰り **で** 買ってきた。

Or if you wanted to say "order" then you could use 注文 in a similar fashion. If
you wanted to say "I ordered takeout" you could say:

> 僕はお持ち帰りで注文しました。

I don't believe there's a way to make takeout a noun by adding 物 or 食べ物.

