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Better to re-learn how to swim with 〜た＋方がいい

Grammar Explanation: Giving advice with 〜た＋方がいい

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As Cocoa mislabels her swimming style as the (front) crawl.

シャロ:
「泳(およ)ぎ方(かた)を覚(おぼ)え直(なお)した方(ほう)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(おぼ)え直(なお)した方(ほう)がいい recommends relearning
  • Syaro judges that Cocoa should replace her mistaken swimming technique with the correct one.
2覚(おぼ)え直(なお)す means learning again in a corrected way
  • 〜直(なお)す adds the sense of redoing an action, and its past form appears before 方(ほう)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.

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