Howdy! I’m also pretty new, but allow me to try to help. I spent a while reading the first page lol.
Firstly, we’re posting in the wrong place now. Please use the thread for Week 1.
- . On panel #1 what is て doing at the end of the verb もたせる, is this a tense thing? Or the emergence of te forms which i have only heard about so far lol. my guess translation was “Let me hold it for a bit”
From what I understand, Japanese te-form turns a normal verb into an “-ing” form verb. Te-form makes it clear that you’re doing the action right now, or continuously. It’s not in the future, but an action you’re working on at this moment. So I did took that part to mean “Let me hold it a little now”.
- On panel #3 だ is used as a particle. From what i can find online it seems to mean “it”, what are the rules behind placing it in a sentence/i thought Japanese generally leaves that to inference, “It’s your fault you dropped it/You have the fault for dropping it”
だ is just the casual/informal form of “desu”. I don’t think of it as a particle, just a word meaning “is”.
- Similar question to panel #1 except with だして this time
You’re right, it’s just the te form of the verb again. So I took it to mean that the balloon is currently getting out.
- Still on panel #5, just needing a breakdown for what Doraemon is saying here.
I asked about that same thing. It’s the first answer over on the Week 1 thread I linked above.
I haven’t gotten as far as your other questions yet but I hope that helps.