よつばと! Vol 9 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club)

[_Marcus]

@ChristopherFritz

I was thinking it odd that Ena would wake up Yotsuba’s father, so I went and checked and I think she’s talking to Asagi there. Helps if I look at the pages! (Or maybe she does mean him?)

Oh yes, of course! I missed out Asagi’s line in the middle: それが問題なんですよ

My apologies!

@ChristopherFritz

Since most (all?) verbs ending in す are things you do to something, it means she’s saying she can do waking (wake him, as there is a あげる on it).

I had no idea about that!

I fear to look any further into this! Are we talking transitive/intransitive here? Two words I’ve religiously avoided since starting Japanese! Arrgh, the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know!

Thanks so much @ChristopherFritz