Asking for a friend (taking Tylenol in Japanese)

[Altje]

Do you drink or eat tylenol? Like in a Japanese sentence… I know usually “nomu”/“nomimasu” is used for medicine but does that actually apply to all medicines even pills?

Thanks. xD

[Belthazar]

It’s still 飲む. Weird little quirk of Japanese.

(Though, you don’t really “eat” pills in English either. You “take” them.)

[Altje]

Yeah but you eat pills/medicine in Chinese/Swedish lol. That’s what I was basing it off, not English.

Thanks! xD

[Kumirei]

Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yesです

[Leebo]

Yeah, it’s worth noting that 飲む is more like “swallow” generally than “drink” specifically. So it’s not that far out there.

Basically, if you’re not chewing it, 飲む is okay. So, eating something whole would also be 飲む if you wanted.

[plantron]

@Belthazar

Though, you don’t really “eat” pills in English either

[tzukishiro]

This was the dumbest thing I’ve ever read and I couldn’t be happier.

[YukiPhoenix]

@Belthazar

(Though, you don’t really “eat” pills in English either. You “take” them.)

As a kid, I once chewed and swallowed a coated Advil. Apparently I thought you had to eat it like an M&M.

It was… not tasty.

[rabite30]

Medicine rarely is. And you know what they say? The worse tasting a medicine is, the better it works.

Hadn’t learned to swallow pills when I was younger and had to cut a pill in half to take it. I put in pizza and could taste it through the pizza. It was bigger than an advil and I bet it was nastier.