Join the よつばと! Reading Club! よつばと! Volume 9 (Chapters 56-62) Discussion Thread Current Chapter: 62 [image] Reading Schedule Start Date Reading Jump To Discussion June 10 Chapter 56 link June 17 Chapter 57 link June 24 Chapter 58 link July 1 Chapter 59 link July 8 Chapter 60 link July 15 Chapter 61 link July 22 Chapter 62 link Reminders for Discussion: Feel free to discuss grammar, vocabulary, comprehension questions, as well as interesting plot or character development. Include references (page, panel, character speech bubble, etc.) so that others can help you. We’re all here to learn and read together, so share your thoughts and ask questions! Resources Jisho: An online dictionary with words by Wanikani level, radical search, etc. Romaji Desu: An online dictionary that allows you to look up by romaji, even for conjugated verbs.

marcusp: Any help with that て Via ichi.moe: I know, it can be difficult to follow all the て’s. But you get used to it eventually and it becomes easy to tell. (I hope. It will, right? Right?) marcusp: の - nominaliser? I don’t know if this is considered such here or not, but I believe that this portion is essentially “this area’s teddy bears”, but the “teddy bear” part is left out. Consider 「この辺のテディベア」 becoming 「この辺の」. marcusp: Can you have two が particles in one sentence? You can. As for the usage of the two が here…バトンタッチ! I pass this baton on to someone else to explain! marcusp: I’m guessing that the おく is 置く . Is that right? 奥. But it’s really easy to think 置く, because it sounds right if you’re just looking at the words. I had thought the same at first as well. However, if that were the case, then 置く should be at the end of the sentence. (Also, I think にも will only follow a verb in a negative sentence. But that’s beyond my grammar level right now.) marcusp: なかよく - 仲良く is to be good friends with, and ねー is a sentence ending particle, but what does してあげて mean? I know して is する in て-form and あげて is あげる in て-form, but what do they mean together like this? 仲良く is the adverbial form of the い-adjective, 仲良い. して is from the verb する. That said, from “The Handbook of Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs” by Taeko Kamiya, page 99: Thus, 仲良くする would be “do becomes friends with”. You can think of it as altering the state of their relationship (Yotsuba and the teddybear) from being strangers to being close friends. The する is in its て form to attach another verb to it, あげる. あげる is “to do for (the sake of someone else)”. In this case, I think the salesclerk is saying to do it for her(self). And the あげる is in the て form that is politely てください, and casually て, as a polite request. Add in the ね at the end, and it reads as: “Become good friends (with the bear) for me, okay?” Edit: I could be wrong about the “for” person. It may be “for (the teddybear)” rather than the salesclerk. I get tripped up a bit on these “do for someone” verbs. Anyone, please don’t hesitate to correct any mistakes I’ve made. Or explain those two が’s!

Wow! Thank you so much @ChristopherFritz for such a detailed response! Sadly I have to get off the computer right now, but later tonight I’ll study your reply in detail and I’m looking forward to it! Thank you so much! (And thank you too for your help over in volume 2!)

[image] ChristopherFritz: Edit: I could be wrong about the “for” person. It may be “for (the teddybear)” rather than the salesclerk. I get tripped up a bit on these “do for someone” verbs. If it’s the clerk talking and she says あげる, it cannot be for herself. くれる and あげる have a range of uses, but, normally, the basic constraint is that: with くれる the giver cannot be yourself; and with あげる the receiver cannot be yourself. [image] ChristopherFritz: You can. As for the usage of the two が here…バトンタッチ! I pass this baton on to someone else to explain! In a lot of the simpler cases of double-が, including here, you can read the first one as の (here indicating possession, but also sometimes restriction), with the exclusive nuance of が: lit. “the ones in this area [and not others] are those whose hands and feet […]”

Replying to myself, since I thought it was funny/interesting. In 9 days, I went from this: [image] To this: [image] It seems I’ve read 261 manga chapters. :stuck_out_tongue: I know some people (myself included) read more than that without issue, but it had been a while since I’ve read this much. :sweat_smile:

ギリギリアウト！ :weary: I fell asleep early yesterday. :sweat_smile: Discussion of Chapter 58 starts here. Opening Post Bottom of Page 行くぞ！:triumph:

Dunno what right Yotsuba has to criticise Juralumin’s sleeping posture considering the position she woke up in.

I didn’t read Yotsuba last week, so here’s last chapter’s thoughts. Page 33: You can basically guess that 何べん is “how many times”, but I didn’t know the kanji. 何遍 Apparently, while a common word, level 57 in WaniKani. :open_mouth: [image] :cry: Page 36? [image] [image] One would imagine that it’s excursion, but you never know with Yotsuba. :thinking: Also, the answer messes with me a little. “A bigger place.” A bigger place than an excursion? :dizzy_face: I imagine it’s compared to going to the store, a diner, etc. Am I missing something? :sweat_smile: She even says, “せいゆうよりでかい！” later. Man, I just love plazas. I love exploring new places and buying a lot of stuff (mostly food). Last time I went to LA, we went to a big Japanese plaza, but most people just stayed in a big dollar store, so a friend and I went to all the other floors (3), and wandered around for a bit. It was fun. :slight_smile: Then, we woke up early, and went to another plaza near the hotel, I don’t remember the name right now. We bought some freshly cooked 肉饅, a sushi set from the market, and some fried squid, and ate them on a bench. I love that sort of stuff. It was really peaceful. :slight_smile: (And a lot earlier than I’m used to. :stuck_out_tongue:) I might’ve told this story before! :laughing: [image] Mood. The next panel is also great. :stuck_out_tongue: [image] [image] I think I more or less got it. Since Dad says, “とーちゃんの言うことをよく聞いてー”. Yotsuba thinks he’s saying like, “Do what I say or I won’t buy it.” So she goes on her rant. Perhaps. :stuck_out_tongue: This is just absurd. :exploding_head: [image] Fast chapter. :open_mouth: I’ll read the next one a bit later. (For real this time. :sweat_smile:)

[image] Kazzeon: One would imagine that it’s excursion, but you never know with Yotsuba. :thinking: It’s the name of the shopping mall. Seiyu Group Seiyu GK (合同会社西友, Gōdō-gaisha Seiyū), or Seiyu Group (西友グループ, Seiyū Gurūpu), is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers and department stores, headquartered in Akabane (赤羽), Kita, Tokyo. The group was established in December 1946, and was formed in 1956 by Seibu Department Stores, a group company of Seibu Railway. In 1980, Seiyu launched its private brand Mujirushi-Ryōhin (commonly known as MUJI outside Japan). MUJI was transferred to the Ryohin Keikaku Company in 1990, and is no lo... [image] Kazzeon: This is just absurd. :exploding_head: It’s a Steiff.

[image] Belthazar: It’s the name of the shopping mall. Gah! D: Dang names of stuff. :angry: [image] Belthazar: It’s a Steiff. Seems like this one? (still absurd, btw) https://www.steiff.com/en-gb/teddy-bear-replica-1908-403170.html

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Kazzeon June 24, 2019, 6:53pm 73

ギリギリアウト！

I fell asleep early yesterday.

Discussion of Chapter 58 starts here.

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行くぞ！

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