What a brilliant post! Thank you so much @2OC3aOdKgwSGlxfz! Much appreciated! 
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誰がいないね、多分？
This sentence is killing me. ジャンボが二人分働くしな。What does it mean? I understand the words individually but I’m unsure of the meaning of the sentence. Any help is greatly appreciated 
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In context, the father and Jumbo had just talked about how a third person, Yanda, isn’t there to help move.
The father says it’s fine, because “Jumbo does the work of two people”.
二人分 = portion for two people
There’s a missing particle that should be after 二人分, but it’s left out as it’s clear from context (for a native Japanese speaker). But I can’t say which particle it would be, as I’m not familiar with 二人分 used in sentences.
I’m not positive about the use of し+な at the end, so I won’t speculate.
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It’s the し used when listing reasons for something. な is just the introspective sentence ending particle
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That し I’m about 5% familiar with. Looks like I’ll be on the lookout for it showing up more when I read things. Thanks!
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Welcome to the WK community @zamman and welcome to the Yotsuba Book Club! Great first post! Thank you for posting a really nice question which it seems we missed previously in the thread - and thank you @ChristopherFritz and @Kumirei for answering it!
Could I make a request @zamman? When you post questions, please can you put the page number at the top of the post. Not only does this save everyone heaps of time trying to find the sentence, it also makes it easier to find in the search function (and thus avoids too many duplicate questions). If you take a look at Christopher’s reply, you’ll see he added the page number in bold at the top (probably from sheer unconscious habit by now!).
Anyway, thanks again so much for the question, and hope to see you in the threads again soon! (Plus, we have a live-reading every week. We finish volume 8 and start volume 9 this week if you happen to have those already and would like to join us!).
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Oh, and I forgot to mention… I spent ages trying to find this sentence in the book. Then it dawned on me, that perhaps this isn’t from the book at all, right? It’s something you’re saying is it? Or have I got the completely wrong end of the stick?
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Sounds like you need to read the volume several more times to be able to recognize at a glance what isn’t in it =D
Joking aside, I thought the same at first. You won’t find it in the manga (unless you want to write it into a margin near an appropriate-looking panel…)
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I tell ya, the amount of times I’ve read volume one (first here, then with youtube videos, then in our live reading, then in the other live reading group, etc) you’d think I’d know every line by now! But nope, still getting tripped up over the smallest things!
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Oh, I’m really sorry. I hope I didn’t waste your time! I’m make sure to reference the page number
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Yep, that makes perfect sense now! Thank you so much
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That’s super helpful, thanks!
Thanks for bumping this. I forgot all about it and had to rewatch it now, after having read the entire よつばと series a while ago. I really liked that manga, although I think there are some easier options for beginners.
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Aha no worries. It was definitely a bit too difficult for me at my current level, just with all the unusual language used by よつば and ひっこし (?) as mentioned in Misa’s video. I’ll stick with some easier Tadoku stories for now.
ひっこし means “moving house”. Are you thinking of Yotsuba’s dad?
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WHOOPS, yes I meant her dad! I assumed it was a name since my translation didn’t give me anything. Thanks for the clarification.
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Isn’t that 変なもん持って来なよ instead of
変なもん持ってくれなよ
持って＋来る＝ Bring；持って＋来る＋ない（command）＝Don’t bring
I think 呉れる doesn’t makes much sense （to me）。Can someone confirm if this is correct, and if it isn’t explain me? pls
It says 変なもん持ってくんなよ. You sometimes find that る before an n-sound gets changed to ん, so it’s 変なもん持ってくるなよ. な after the dictionary form can be a negative imperative.
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thank you!