Better to re-learn how to swim with 〜た＋方がいい
Grammar Explanation: Giving advice with 〜た＋方がいい
Rize and her friends visit an indoor hot spring. Rize admits she doesn’t know how to swim.
- ココア:
- 「私のクロール見てー」
- “Look at my front crawl!”
- シャロ:
- 「泳ぎ方を覚え直した方がいいわね」
- “You had better relearn how to swim.”
- Literal: “The direction of having relearned how to swim is good.”
Key Points
1覚え直した方がいい recommends relearning
- Syaro judges that Cocoa should replace her mistaken swimming technique with the correct one.
2覚え直す means learning again in a corrected way
- 〜直す adds the sense of redoing an action, and its past form appears before 方がいい.
3わね makes the criticism sound conversational
- The ending shares Syaro’s assessment with Cocoa instead of presenting a formal instruction.
4見て is a casual request
- A sentence ending in the て-form can leave ください unstated. The long てー stretches Cocoa’s call for attention.
Vocabulary
私 (I)
私 means “I” or “me”. It is the standard first-person pronoun in polite speech and is also common in casual speech among women.
見る (To see)
見る means to see or look at something. It can also mean to examine its condition or nature.
See Also
- Grammar: Giving advice with 〜た＋方がいい
- Grammar: Doing better with 〜直す
- Grammar: Connecting actions with 〜て・〜で
- Kanji: Privacy and self with 私
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